At the turn of the twentieth century Italy registered a lowest-low fertility level, i.e., a total fertility rate of 1 …

for women married between 1949 and 2006. Data are drawn from the Survey of Fertility, Family and Values of 2006. The … stress the declining importance of socio-economic variables, such as education and the labour market situation of women. …

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 … this negative relationship, but how persistent will this relationship prove to be? As women’s education rapidly catches up …

modernization and geared to promote women’s status, all segments of the population are rapidly changing their fertility behavior …

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 fertility differentials among the country’s social groups continue to persist. Moreover, the difficult change in the …