We provide a portrait of change in the family demography of native-born, secular Jews in Israel. We document that in many respects, this group, like most affluent national populations in Europe, N. America, Oceania and parts of Asia, exhibits patterns of behavior that are consistent with the...

We contribute to understanding the relationship of education to fertility by disentangling educational fertility differentials within occupational groups and industries in a Central European comparative setting, using census samples from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) that...

This special collection of Demographic Research is devoted to the issue of how economic and employment uncertainties relate to fertility and family dynamics in Europe. The collection is based on contributions to a workshop held in Berlin in July 2009, which in turn was stimulated by the onset of...

Recent research by demographers and economists has examined the link between living costs and fertility outcomes. The literature has provided some evidence that high rents, or high housing costs, discourage fertility. A re-examination of that hypothesis with recent micro data from the US...