This paper contributes to the sparse literature on the impact of temporary migration on fertility in origin areas. It …. Fertility and migration models are solved simultaneously to account for cross-process correlation. There is clear evidence for a … short-term disruptive effect of spousal separation, but it is too early to assess the implications for completed fertility …

Guatemala is characterized by low contraceptive use rates and one of the highest fertility rates in the Western … identification of the segments of the Guatemalan population at most need for contraceptive and family planning services. Using the …

partner, and parental relationships with existing children, and subsequent fertility. The data are from 2,948 women and 2 … positive relationship between prior satisfaction with life and fertility two years later is found. Men’s satisfaction with … their partner and with their partner’s relationship with existing children are positively related to fertility. Fertility …

, and Russia; the 2003 Dutch Fertility and Family Survey; and the British Household Panel Survey. … conduct cross-national analyses of recent union and fertility behavior over time. A team of researchers called the Nonmarital … Childbearing Network has cleaned and standardized the surveys according to guidelines set out in this manual. Currently, the …

This paper validates the fertility and union histories of the German Generations and Gender Survey (GGS). One major … result from this validation is that the fertility of the older GGS-cohorts is too low, while it is too high for the younger … cohorts. For partnership histories, we find a similar bias. In sum, the GGS gives wrong cohort fertility and marriage trends …

-specific fertility rates for the period 2001 to 2008. Hospital statistics include information on births that took place in German … assessment is that the hospital data are a valuable source for generating order-specific fertility rates, regardless of whether …

practices and the lack of progress in lengthening birth intervals. Meanwhile, family planning efforts have been particularly … successful in the southern states such as Andhra Pradesh, although family limitation is almost exclusively by means of … childbearing trajectories in India and quantifies the potential implications stemming from the neglect of strategies that encourage …

Empirical studies of the diffusion of modern methods of family planning have increasing incorporated social interaction …. This paper considers the implications of using nonlinear models in empirical analyses of the impact of family programs … ultimate level of use of modern family planning that a population can be expected to reach after the effects of a sustained …

This paper compares nonparametric fertility rates for American women in stepfamilies and intact families using data … from the June 1995 Current Population Survey. Results show that childbearing behaviors in stepfamilies resemble those in … intact families. Regardless of stepfamily status, timings and levels of fertility for second and third marital births are …