is still largely unclear what caused them. This paper presents a new unified explanation of the fertility Boom-Bust that … the entry of the D-cohort is associated with increased births in the 1950s, while its retirement turned the fertility Boom … completed fertility of all cohorts involved. …

This study investigates how the changes in labour market conditions and economic growth affected fertility before and … temporal change and handling hierarchically structured data. Our findings show that fertility decline was strongly related to … unemployment increase and that this relationship was significant at all ages. Fertility responded to worsening economic conditions …

countries. This paper identifies factors from the literature – both cyclical and structural – that affect the fertility rate and … fertility rate (TFR) generally appears to be pro-cyclical, it has not rebounded with the recovery from the Great Recession. As a … result, the analysis decomposes the structural factors that affect fertility – race/ethnicity, education, religion, the …