and overall fertility levels, non-marital births are the norm in eastern Germany but the exception in western Germany. A … part of Germany and western Germany. Although the demography of these two regions has converged with respect to mortality … number of explanations, stemming from the policy and socio-economic conditions of eastern and western Germany in recent …

three Scandinavian countries: Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. We use indexes produced by applying event-history techniques to … register data of the three countries in order to describe and contrast fertility developments by birth order over the last … of various cross-country differences in fertility levels. We can determine to what extent developments in one country are …

When assessing the importance of education for fertility, one should ideally use complete education histories … education effect estimates. It is also illustrated that imputation of education for earlier ages may lead to wrong conclusions … incomplete education histories, and try to make use of relevant information from other sources about the actual educational …

This paper investigates the role of women’s education in the transition to the second child using data from the 1997 … German micro-census. We begin our analysis with a simple model, which shows a positive effect of woman’s education on the … hypothesis, we argue that the positive effect of women’s education can be attributed to a selection effect, i.e. family …

We compare second birth risks in France and western Germany using data from the Family and Fertility Survey. Second … birth risks are higher for highly educated women than for women with lower education in both countries. In western Germany …, the positive effect weakens after controlling for the education level of the partner. The positive effect of French womenâ …

three Scandinavian countries: Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. We use indexes pro-duced by applying event-history techniques to … register data of the three countries in order to describe and contrast fertility developments by birth order over the last … of various cross-country differences in fertility levels. We can determine to what extent developments in one country are …

around the censuses of 1979 and 1989, but these studies were based on different sources of information on education for the … the LRC cohort, mortality of men with high education is close to the city average for Helsinki and Oslo. Absolute inter … (40-74) between men with high and low education are 5.2, 3.5, and 3.2 years in the LRC cohort, Helsinki, and Oslo …

Behind a stable and relatively high fertility level in Norway during the 1990s we find increasing differences in the … from the Central Population Register in Norway are used to provide a review of recent fertility trends and discuss the … consequences of education level on differences in fertility patterns. The paper will also provide some indication of aspects that …