Stimulated by the recent debate on gender roles and men’s fertility behaviour (Puur et al. 2008; Westoff and Higgins …, intentions to have many (3 or more) children, and high personal fertility ideals among low-parity men and women. Gender equality … raise men’s expected fertility compared to men with intermediate gender attitudes and independently of family values. Among …

Foreign Spouses. Wives from China are found to have the lowest lifetime fertility of 1.4 children, mainly because they were … their second marriage. The effect of wife’s educational attainment on lifetime fertility turned out to be either modest or …

During the 1920s and early 1930s, fertility in American municipalities declined overall and with large variation … between areas and across time. Using data for 1923-1932 on fertility and public spending for over 50 large cities, we show … fertility. Fixed effects regressions indicate a $4 increase in per capita public health education spending or a $37 increase in …

studies. It is possible that individual stunting risks are also raised by high fertility in the community, partly because of … the impact of aggregate fertility on the local economy, but this issue has not been addressed in earlier investigations … idea that a child’s stunting risk may be raised by high fertility in the community. …

A fundamental reversal of the traditional fertility-development relationship has occurred in highly developed countries … so that further socioeconomic development is no longer associated with decreasing fertility, but with increasing … fertility. In this paper, we seek to shed light on the mechanisms underlying this reversal by analyzing data from 1975 to 2008 …

Humans, and many other species, suffer senescence: mortality increases and fertility declines with adult age. Some … species, however, enjoy sustenance: mortality and fertility remain constant. Here we develop simple but general evolutionary …

disruption affects a woman’s cumulated fertility. Given that in Italy marital instability is relatively recent and still barely …. With respect to the second point, we find that women who underwent a marital dissolution have lower fertility than those …€”of the fertility lost with the dissolution of the first marriage. …