intermarriage in Parsi population decline. Population projections were made under various assumptions of fertility and inter …-marriage scenarios. Results show that given current fertility, acceptance of children of intermarried women would have a negligible … impact on stemming the population decline, which is chiefly driven by extremely low fertility. …

investigates two issues: (1) how a woman’s family life-course (union status and parity/ages of children born in the first … disruption affects a woman’s cumulated fertility. Given that in Italy marital instability is relatively recent and still barely …-dissolution childbearing; (ii) significant differences in the risk of having a child following the dissolution of a marriage are present only …

This article studies continued childbearing and union stability among "power couples," or dual-career couples. The …. Income and other variables are controlled for. The results show that power couples are more likely to continue childbearing … childbearing and the small gains to specialisation, power couples who start families are able to combine career and continued …

studying the persistence of communist-era family patterns, the effects of economic change, and the complexities of the process … of fertility postponement. After unification, fertility rates plummeted in the former East Germany to record low levels …. The number of births per year fell 60 percent. The period total fertility rate (TFR) reached a low of 0.8. Since the …

inhibit or enable the realization of fertility intentions are analyzed. Data from the first three waves of the German Family … for the realization of short-term childbearing intentions is tested in the low-fertility context of Germany. Our …This paper studies the short-term fertility intentions of women and men and their subsequent behavior. On the one hand …

labour market participation and comparatively higher fertility. Using data from the 2003 Italian Multipurpose Survey - Family …Fertility levels have fallen drastically in most industrialized countries. Diverse theoretical and empirical frameworks … have had difficulty in explaining these unprecedented low levels of fertility. More recently, however, attention has turned …

Despite the centrality of religion and fertility to life in rural Africa, the relationship between the two remains … the particular characteristics of a congregation—leader’s positive attitudes toward family planning and discussion of …