Netherlands and Spain. These countries represent three distinct demographic patterns in contemporary Europe and are of particular … interest for demographers. The goal of our analyses is to (a) describe past fertility trends in these countries in terms of … synthetic cohorts and (b) project the level and distribution of completed fertility in cohorts who have not finished …

structural models with controls for endowments. These possibilities are increasingly used in the context of fertility and related … behaviors. A close congruence between the fertility patterns of twins and that of the general population, however, is an … essential pre-condition in order to generalize the results of twin-based investigations of fertility and related behaviors to …

distinct implications caused by delays in childbearing: tempo distortions imply an underestimation of the quantum of fertility … in observed period data, and the fertility aging effect reduces higher parity births because the respective exposure is … provide means to assess the latter aging effect. The measures therefore provide a unified toolkit of fertility indices that (a …

The annual figures on the fertility of Turkish and Moroccan women show that the sharp decline that took place up to the … non-western origin to show that the first generation only adjusted their fertility slowly to that of the native Dutch … women. The first generation of Turkish and Moroccan women even has higher fertility rates than the women in their countries …

We observe that a dynamic population model can have period fertility that is always below replacement and cohort … fertility that is always above replacement. We ask whether such a paradoxical population will get larger or smaller, and show … that it must become smaller. Cohort replacement does not imply population replacement, and emphasizing fertility timing and …

projections of cohort fertility in the Czech Republic and Italy. …Using detailed data on period and cohort fertility in four European countries, this paper discusses various indicators … of period fertility, including indicators adjusted for changes in fertility timing. Empirical analysis focuses on the …

fertility levels. The case of Italy is particularly significant given that this country carries great demographic weight in …This study aims to describe the process of birth postponement and recovery in Italy, a country with persistent very low …€. We find that a recovery is presently in progress in the northern regions of Italy, even if not all postponed births are …