German Socio-Economic Panel which provides longitudinal information of economic uncertainty and fertility for the period 1984 …

in child-sex specific fertility behavior of two-child mothers in 1981-1999. For Finland, we observe a continuous boy …

impact on individuals´ and couples´ fertility intentions and behavior. We identify relevant others and mechanisms of …

When assessing the importance of education for fertility, one should ideally use complete education histories …

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 … Swedish fertility has fluctuated relatively strongly during the whole period while Danish and Norwegian fertility have evolved …

This paper introduces a collection of related studies on different aspects of research on European fertility and family …th birthday. It provides an overview of important approaches to, and relevant topics of European fertility research, as … well as a number of case studies researching European fertility. In this introduction, we first give a brief summary of the …

, the effects of a change in female population composition by economic characteristics on the fertility trend were small. …