low parities. While high fertility appears to be unimportant, the analysis supports the notion that socioeconomic factors …

in fertility. However, most research on fertility and happiness uses cross-sectional data, hindering causal conclusions … education gain little in happiness from the birth of a child. Women experience stronger pre-birth highs and post-birth drops … most among those who postpone and have more resources. This recipe for happiness is highly consistent with the fertility …

This paper investigates the role of states and regions in shaping spatial patterns of non-marital fertility in Europe … substantial nonmarital fertility increases over the last 50 years. Prior research by Watkins (1991) has shown that in the first … continue to play such a dominant role in delineating patterns of nonmarital fertility between 1960 and 2007. We find that …

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, marriage, migration, and social mobility. …

characterized recent fertility trends in Russia. These were intrinsically interwoven with fundamental changes in all aspects of life … of young people in the 1990s and the 2000s. The past quarter century was also marked by concern with low fertility and … attempts to increase fertility in the early 1980s and the late 2000s. The family policies of the 1980s failed to raise …