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 …

Despite the small size of Denmark, there have traditionally been rather consistent regional differences in fertility … concisely illuminating the regional differences of first-time births in Denmark. From the Fertility of Women and Couples Dataset … that the APC-model describes the fertility rates of nulliparous women satisfactorily. To catch the regional variation an …

Europe. This study examines fertility variation across settlements in four Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway and …There is a growing body of literature that looks at the causes of below-replacement fertility in developed countries … studied in detail, little is known about the differences in fertility patterns across settlements within a country. A few …

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 …

Previous analyses of period fertility suggest that the trends of the Nordic countries are sufficiently similar to speak … of a common "Nordic fertility regime". We investigate whether this assumption can be corroborated by comparing cohort … fertility patterns in the Nordic countries. We study cumulated and completed fertility of Nordic birth cohorts based on the …

Database (Denmark’s population above age 58). They offer detailed information about SES and health information. The technique … with age in Denmark but not in the US. In both countries, they converge strongly with decreasing health. When controlled …