Until the global financial crisis, China was thought to be decades away from overtaking the United States as the world’s largest economy. But while the US skirted economic stagnation, China was able to successfully navigate the crisis, and its growth continues to accelerate. Has the time...

We study the aggregate gap between intended and actual fertility in 20 countries in Europe and the United States, adopting a cohort approach that differs from the period approach widely used in prior research. We compare the mean intended number of children and percentage intending to be...

Die internationale Finanzmarktkrise hat sich zu einer Weltwirtschaftskrise ungeahnten Ausmaßes entwickelt. Was im Jahr 2007 in den USA als Subprimekrise begann, weitete sich innerhalb kürzester Zeit zu einer globalen Krise aus, bei der es sich um die bedeutendste Krise seit der letzten...