Strulik, Holger; Vollmer, Sebastian - In: Journal of Population Economics 28 (2015) 1, pp. 31-44
In this paper, we study the evolution of the distribution of fertility rates across the world from 1950 to 2005 using … components: a high-fertility regime and a low-fertility regime. Whereas the significance of twin peaks vanishes over time, the … two fertility regimes continue to exists over the whole observation period. In 1950, about two thirds of the world …