In most western societies, marital fertility began to decline in the nineteenth century. But in Ireland, fertility in … marriage remained stubbornly high into the twentieth century. Explanations of Ireland's late entry to the fertility transition … Irish outside of Ireland behaved the same way. This paper investigates these claims by examining the marital fertility of …

in East Asia, and in Asia more generally, with fertility rates falling below replacement in many of these countries. In …

substantial risk of death exists for the mother. It makes therefore sense to impose a stopping rule for fertility. However, this …

Fertility in the MENA countries shows that transition is an undeniable trend in this region, where the paradigm of … demographic transition seemed to lose all its credibility. Analysis of the proximate determinants of fertility shows that … quasi-natural fertility close to or above six children such as Yemen and Palestine. …

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 …

Transition’ is analyzing the longterm determinants of fertility by carrying out family reconstitutions of three Württemberg …