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

This chapter provides a detailed description of the fertility changes in Bulgaria during recent decades and discusses … considerable decline in fertility. Before the fall of communism, fertility trends in Bulgaria were stable and characterized by a … the first years of the new century, we observe a marked, rapid change in fertility behaviour. Together with the severe …

that increases in schooling at lower levels alone bear only somewhat on the prospects for fertility decline among …

earlier second and third births, however increase in completed cohort fertility was minimal. A third wave started in 2007 … was a turning point in the change of fertility and nuptiality models. The 1970s birth cohorts marry and become parents …-traditional features of fertility and nuptiality remain. These distinguish Russia from most European countries and will persist in the near …

of contemporary low fertility. Assisted reproductive technology (ART) is emerging and having a slight positive impact on … fertility in some countries. …

In this paper we present a detailed demographic analysis of the change of period fertility that occurred since 1930 … from 1994. We assess the influence of external events on the level and distribution of (period) fertility. For the years … prior to 1950 our information on age specific fertility is not complete, but using fertility models acceptable estimates can …

tempo under changing fertility and mortality that share a synthetic cohort interpretation with the adjusted measure of … quantum. I stress similarities between the results for fertility and mortality, particularly in terms of mean age of … childbearing and mean age at death, but also note some important distinctions. I conclude that the fertility adjustments can help …

the upper 20s and 30s. Whereas a high fertility among the better-educated perhaps could be explained by socioeconomic or … educational differentials in completed fertility that are quite small and to a large extent stem from a higher proportion of …

between union instability and fertility in Brazil which has been long understudied. Using the example of Brazil it … fertility in Brazil using multiprocess event history analysis techniques as developed by Lillard (1993). This type of … countries mainly due to the lack of data. The paper will demonstrate the positive effect of union instability on fertility. …

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 …