Japan is one of few developed countries in which marriage and higher earning potential among women are negatively … associated. As the proportion of births occurring outside of marriage remains low in Japan, fertility is still significantly … women. Previous studies have suggested that the economic independence associated with higher education is at the root of …

sequential birth of two single children. The divorce risk for a woman with a very young child was lower than the risk for women … without children or women with children older than 3.5 years. This behaviour was essentially independent of the number of …

moving is a stressful life event and that numerous studies suggest that women’s economic well-being and employment suffer …

modernization and geared to promote women’s status, all segments of the population are rapidly changing their fertility behavior …. This applies even to the most laggard group, such as illiterate women. The analysis also shows no significant or clear …

fertility of women with high educational standards seems to be responsible for the stalling fertility decline during recent … near stagnation in the reduction of fertility levels in the last decade. The progression from second to third birth is a … crucial component in fertility change, since the reduction especially of third and higher-order births maintains the fertility …

that women’s economic well-being and employment suffer from family migration, which is usually stimulated by the career of …

women in Italy. Using the Indagine longitudinale sulle famiglie italiane (ILFI) of 1997 and 1999, we estimate multiplicative … intensity models for the transition to (i) cohabitation as first relationship and (ii) direct marriage of women in Italy … semi-structured interviews with cohabiting and married women (who experienced a previous cohabitation) in Italy. The …

The deep drop of the fertility rate in Italy to among the lowest in the world challenges contemporary theories of … female labor force participation that would favor higher fertility than its European neighbors to the north. We test … and fertility, but the clear importance of regional differences and of secularization suggests that such an explanation is …