Using several rounds of the Eurobarometer [EB] survey, we examine the relationship between lifetime fertility …, the years in which the two EB surveys were conducted, are key driving forces behind the decline of fertility intentions … attached to the reported fertility intentions substantially contributes to the declining pattern observed over the five years …

determine the final population trend. The period fertility rates are not relevant to ultimate population size in the case of … formal demography and can be applied to the fertility transition modeling, population forecasting, and population genetics. …

Most of the international studies on fertility are based on a female perspective. A major difficulty in couple … study conducted in Italy [2003-2007], a country with persistently low fertility levels, we examined the effect of … short-term fertility intentions strongly improves if both partners' views are considered in fertility models, and thus …

Research on fertility has been mainly using quantitative methods, and it is only in the last few decades that …-called triangulation is even more uncommon. Applying a triangulation, the current paper aims to better understand the concept of fertility …

Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two … fertility and female labour market participation, negative until the mid-1970s, has turned positive where developed, but not …

the causal effect of family size on completed educational attainment, fertility, and earnings. For the purposes of this …

We study the effect of child care costs on the fertility behavior of Swedish women and find that reductions in child … care charges influence fertility decisions, even when costs are initially highly subsidized. Exploiting the exogenous … costs on fertility in a context in which child care enrolment is almost universal and the labor force participation of …

This paper analyzes the effects of skilled migration and remittances on fertility decisions at origin. We develop an … overlapping generations model which accounts for endogenous fertility and education. Parents choose the number of children they … that, at origin, increased high skilled emigration reduces fertility and fosters human capital accumulation. …