In the wake of the birth rate stabilization in the country as a whole, the majority of regions demonstrated a trend to reduce the birth rate of the first child and to increase the birth rate of third and subsequent children. The stability of this trend means a simultaneous increase in...

The paper deals with a problem regularly faced by survey studies of patriarchal communities, i.e. communities with a high authority of senior generations and a low level of women's autonomy. In such communities, female respondents might give untruthful answers to survey questions in order to fit...

The article contains a concise review of the research related to the impact of economic crises and pandemics on fertility in developed countries. The significance of the outcome of these studies is under consideration designed to forecast changes in fertility resulted from the pandemic in...