contrast their fertility developments over the last four decades. Our indexes enable us to decompose overall fertility trends … picture of various cross-country differences in fertility levels. We demonstrate how Swedish fertility has fluctuated … relatively strongly during the whole period while Norwegian fertility has evolved more gradually, at least during the last two …

Early in the 21st century, three-quarters of Europe’s population lived in countries with fertility considerably below … replacement. This general conclusion is arrived at irrespective of whether period or cohort fertility measures are used. In … Western and Northern Europe, fertility quantum was slightly below replacement. In Southern, Central and Eastern Europe …

In the last 60 years, Slovakia has experienced comparatively high and most recently very low fertility, long periods of … stable fertility alternating with periods of changes, periods of substantial as well as lesser state interventions. Fertility …

replacement fertility. Much depends on progression ratios to first and to second births. In CEE mainly the progression ratios to …

Kyrgyzstan, focusing on the link between migration and fertility. We employ event-history techniques to retrospective data from … the ‘Marriage, Fertility, and Migration’ survey conducted in Northern Kyrgyzstan in 2005 to study patterns in first …

experienced a precipitous decline in fertility. The determinants of the changes are diverse in character and are associated with … changing value orientations and life styles. This article traces the fertility trends in Lithuania from the period and cohort … perspective, providing adjusted TFR estimates that reveal the significance of the tempo effect on the recent decline in fertility …

ongoing changes in family and fertility patterns across Europe. It takes a closer look at the shifts in values and attitudes …-examines the link between the second demographic transition and fertility, highlights its strong positive association with … fertility at later childbearing ages, and suggests that the transition does not necessarily lead to sub-replacement fertility …

Religious studies of fertility typically focus on the effect of religious affiliation on fertility; the role of … religiosity in determining fertility remains overlooked. Meanwhile, most studies focus on studying female fertility; whether … religion and religiosity have significantly different impacts on men’s and women’s fertility rarely has been examined. To …

first birth. We do not find evidence of a fertility-disruption effect after immigration. The analysis indicates that second …-generation immigrants are more adapted to the lower fertility levels of West Germans than their mothers’ generation is. …