Ireland's relatively late and feeble fertility transition remains poorly-understood. The leading explanations stress … samples from the 1911 census of Ireland to study fertility in Dublin and Belfast. Our larger project aims to use the extensive … literature on the fertility transition elsewhere in Europe to refine and test leading hypotheses in their Irish context. The …

As in many other developed countries, Ireland in recent decades has experienced a postponement of maternity. In this …/career planning explanation for this postponement. We estimate a hazard model based upon the 1994 Living in Ireland Survey to … maternity. -- Labour markets ; fertility …

This paper explores levels and trends in the prevalence of caesarean section delivery in Ireland between 1999 and 2006 …. Over this period the caesarean section rate in Ireland increased by almost one quarter. Using data from the Irish National …

In this article I measure the child quantity-quality relationship in 1911 Ireland. My analysis shows that sibship size …