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 … childbearing. Our analyses suggest that the most recent period fertility patterns in these countries do not imply substantial …

still have an impact on the fertility behavior of men in adulthood. In particular, the transition rate to fatherhood was …

, fertility has gone through major changes, namely, a massive reduction in fertility and important structural changes: birth …

In most western societies, marital fertility began to decline in the nineteenth century. But in Ireland, fertility in … marriage remained stubbornly high into the twentieth century. Explanations of Ireland's late entry to the fertility transition … Irish outside of Ireland behaved the same way. This paper investigates these claims by examining the marital fertility of …

parental choices. This shows that realized or expected children's death is not the only link between fertility decision and …

determines the long-run rate of output growth. Increased genetic diversity (or income inequality) is shown to raise the fertility …