This paper studies the short-term fertility intentions of women and men and their subsequent behavior. On the one hand …, the predictive strength of fertility intentions is of interest. On the other hand, the most important determinants that … inhibit or enable the realization of fertility intentions are analyzed. Data from the first three waves of the German Family …

Fertility levels have fallen drastically in most industrialized countries. Diverse theoretical and empirical frameworks … have had difficulty in explaining these unprecedented low levels of fertility. More recently, however, attention has turned … countries also facilitate or constrain the combination of women’s employment with fertility. This paper provides an empirical …

education, in particular on female education. Social and demographic settings for a further fertility reduction in Albania have …For a very long time, Albania has had one of the highest levels of fertility in Europe: in 2002 the total fertility … a rapid fertility reduction during the last 50 years: a TFR decline from 7 to 2.2. This reduction has occurred in the …

Despite the centrality of religion and fertility to life in rural Africa, the relationship between the two remains …

fertility, not only in the selected eight European countries but also in a considerable number of other developed countries. We …

This study examines fertility variation across different residential contexts in four Northern European countries …-nation variations in fertility by distinguishing between urban centres and suburbs of cities and towns. We base our study on aggregate … and individual-level register data and our analysis shows that fertility levels are significantly higher in suburbs than …