Netherlands and Spain. These countries represent three distinct demographic patterns in contemporary Europe and are of particular … interest for demographers. The goal of our analyses is to (a) describe past fertility trends in these countries in terms of … synthetic cohorts and (b) project the level and distribution of completed fertility in cohorts who have not finished …

We observe that a dynamic population model can have period fertility that is always below replacement and cohort … fertility that is always above replacement. We ask whether such a paradoxical population will get larger or smaller, and show … that it must become smaller. Cohort replacement does not imply population replacement, and emphasizing fertility timing and …

structural models with controls for endowments. These possibilities are increasingly used in the context of fertility and related … behaviors. A close congruence between the fertility patterns of twins and that of the general population, however, is an … essential pre-condition in order to generalize the results of twin-based investigations of fertility and related behaviors to …

distinct implications caused by delays in childbearing: tempo distortions imply an underestimation of the quantum of fertility … in observed period data, and the fertility aging effect reduces higher parity births because the respective exposure is … provide means to assess the latter aging effect. The measures therefore provide a unified toolkit of fertility indices that (a …

The annual figures on the fertility of Turkish and Moroccan women show that the sharp decline that took place up to the … non-western origin to show that the first generation only adjusted their fertility slowly to that of the native Dutch … women. The first generation of Turkish and Moroccan women even has higher fertility rates than the women in their countries …

projections of cohort fertility in the Czech Republic and Italy. …Using detailed data on period and cohort fertility in four European countries, this paper discusses various indicators … of period fertility, including indicators adjusted for changes in fertility timing. Empirical analysis focuses on the …