annuity market with actuarially fair return, imposing the optimum fertility rate and the optimum survival rate leads the …

This article examines the links that have recently been studied between poverty, high fertility and undernourishment …

For nearly three decades, the total fertility rate in England and Wales has remained high relative to other European … countries, and stable at about 1.7 births per woman. In this chapter, we examine trends in both period and cohort fertility … and quantum of fertility. Breaking with a market-oriented and laissez-faire approach to work and family issues, the last …

between union instability and fertility in Brazil which has been long understudied. Using the example of Brazil it … fertility in Brazil using multiprocess event history analysis techniques as developed by Lillard (1993). This type of … countries mainly due to the lack of data. The paper will demonstrate the positive effect of union instability on fertility. …

In most demographic transitions, declines in child mortality precede declines in net fertility rates. Variants of the … Barro-Becker model of fertility fail to deliver this link. A simple extension, the inclusion of social norms regarding … fertility, generates the desired effect. …

that secular Jews have consistently maintained unusually high levels of fertility relative to these national populations …, with the most recent data available suggesting that cohort and period fertility is at or above replacement-level. We … explore possible reasons behind the unusually high fertility of this population. …