analysing demographic data collected by China?s 1982 and 1988 national fertility sample surveys, the study provides further … insights on changes in marriage, mortality, fertility and pregnancy outcomes during the famine period. The study reveals a … dramatic increase in mortality and a decrease in marriage and fertility during the famine period, which had a significant …

, it establishes the relative role of abortion in the fertility decline observed in Lomé. The article uses data from the … potential fertility. …

This study investigates the realization of time-related positive fertility intentions using a comparative approach …. Four European countries of medium size are compared, all with rather different fertility regimes: the Netherlands and … two waves between 2000 and 2007, a typology of fertility intentions and outcomes (postponement, abandonment or realisation …

2012 remained relatively stable. The majority are young women. Fertility remained unchanged with respect to the previous …-specific fertility rates changed little, although fertility in the 35-39 age group continued to increase. Births outside marriage are …

China has joined the group of low-fertility countries; it has a total fertility rate somewhere in the range of 1.4 to 1 ….6. Much speculation about China?s future fertility depends on whether individual?s fertility intentions and preferences are … much higher than the state?s fertility goals. If so, then a relaxation of family planning restrictions could lead to a …

(5.4 per 1,000), and its age structure is younger. Its fertility is slightly higher, at 2.4 children per woman versus 2 …

to inefficiently low fertility in equilibrium. The friction is caused by the lack of ownership of children: if parents …. We analyze an overlapping-generations (OLG) model with fertility choice and parental altruism. Ownership is modeled as a … Tertilt [38], we find that whenever the transfer floor is binding, fertility choices are inefficient. Second, we show that the …

fertility transition: a mortality transition that is not accompanied by improving morbidity causes slower demographic and … productivity improves, fertility falls and the economy prospers. When it falls mainly from better cures, as it has in sub …