What is happening to fertility behaviour? -- No time for children? the key questions / Ann Buchanan and Anna Rotkirch …-child family and other changes in the low fertility countries of Asia / Gavin W. Jones -- Childlessness : choice and circumstances … implication for future family structure in China / Zhenzhen Zheng -- Childbearing and the impact of HIV : the South African …

During the last four decades, the two-child family ideal has become nearly universal across the low-fertility countries …. The proportion of families with two children, which was growing during the baby boom, stopped increasing in the late 1940s … and early 1950s birth cohorts, remaining far below the number of people reporting two as their ideal family size. This …

This paper examines the effect of birth order and family size on human capital using a consistent measure of cognitive … that is orthogonal to family size, as well as controlling for student and family covariates, we find negative family size … no evidence of a relationship between birth order effects and the level of development, while the effect of family size …