and overall fertility levels, non-marital births are the norm in eastern Germany but the exception in western Germany. A … decades, have been put forth. Here, we show that the divide in demographic behavior regarding fertility and marriage pre … German Democratic Republic had in average roughly twice the level of non-marital fertility from at least since the middle of …

relate to fertility and family dynamics in Europe. The collection is based on contributions to a workshop held in Berlin in … unemployment, are related to the fertility and family formation of women and men in contexts across Europe. It covers studies on …

There are already several documented examples of recent increases in cohort fertility in Scandinavia, but for most … countries, cohorts are too young to see if cohort fertility has increased. We produce new estimates of completed cohort … fertility for cohorts born in the 1970s. We combine the best of previous efforts, using cohort forecasting methods to preserve …

fertility. Fixed effects regressions indicate a $4 increase in per capita public health education spending or a $37 increase in …During the 1920s and early 1930s, fertility in American municipalities declined overall and with large variation … between areas and across time. Using data for 1923-1932 on fertility and public spending for over 50 large cities, we show …

fertility. Yet, some patterns cause concern. One concern is that the good recuperation at cohort level partly is explained by … relatively high fertility levels among women educated for female-dominated jobs with extensive part-time work. One may therefore … into fatherhood. Based on updated analyses of female as well as male fertility trends in Norway we address these issues …

Maternity leave policies are designed to ease the tension between women’s employment and fertility, but whether they … and on second conception rates among Russian first-time mothers from 1985-2000 using retrospective job and fertility …

In the twenty years since the reunification of Germany, we have seen a convergence of total fertility rates in the … paper is to better understand the persistence of these differences by studying the fertility behaviour of migrants from the …

intermarriage in Parsi population decline. Population projections were made under various assumptions of fertility and inter …-marriage scenarios. Results show that given current fertility, acceptance of children of intermarried women would have a negligible … impact on stemming the population decline, which is chiefly driven by extremely low fertility. …

disruption affects a woman’s cumulated fertility. Given that in Italy marital instability is relatively recent and still barely …. With respect to the second point, we find that women who underwent a marital dissolution have lower fertility than those …€”of the fertility lost with the dissolution of the first marriage. …

of fertility postponement. After unification, fertility rates plummeted in the former East Germany to record low levels …. The number of births per year fell 60 percent. The period total fertility rate (TFR) reached a low of 0.8. Since the … middle of the 1990s, however, period fertility rates have been rising in East Germany, in contrast to the nearly constant …