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Demography (2022) 59 (6): 2135–2159.
Published: 01 December 2022
... on fertility and marital behavior in Germany, which was a lowest-low fertility setting until recently. We find that exposure to greater import competition from Eastern Europe led to worse labor market outcomes and lower fertility rates. In contrast, workers in industries that benefited from increased exports...
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Demography (2021) 58 (6): 2169–2191.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Eleonora Mussino; Ben Wilson; Gunnar Andersson Abstract Immigrant women who have lived longer in a destination often have relatively low levels of fertility, which is sometimes taken as evidence of the adaptation of behavior. This evidence is almost exclusively based on studies of immigrants from...
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Published: 22 January 2020
Fig. 7 Pathways to low fertility, 1965–2014 More
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Demography (2003) 40 (4): 589–603.
Published: 01 November 2003
...S. Philip Morgan Abstract Nearly half of the world’s population in 2000 lived in countries with fertility rates at or below replacement level, and nearly all countries will reach low fertility levels in the next two decades. Concerns about low fertility, fertility that is well below replacement...
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1451–1475.
Published: 04 July 2014
... fertility, especially desired family size, unwanted fertility, son preference, and fertility postponement. 6 6 2014 4 7 2014 © Population Association of America 2014 2014 Low fertility Fertility preferences Desired family size Indian fertility How well do existing fertility...
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Demography (2020) 57 (1): 267–296.
Published: 22 January 2020
...Fig. 7 Pathways to low fertility, 1965–2014 ...
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Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2085–2111.
Published: 29 October 2020
...Shuang Chen Abstract A large body of research has examined the relationship between family size and child well-being in developing countries, but most of this literature has focused on the consequences of high fertility. The impact of family size in a low-fertility developing country context...
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Demography (2020) 57 (3): 1035–1062.
Published: 22 June 2020
... little, however, about how sibship size disadvantage has changed within countries and how such trends vary across countries. Using comparative data from 111 surveys from 26 low-fertility countries, we find an overall trend of growing sibship size disadvantage across cohorts in the majority of countries...
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Demography (2022) 59 (1): 371–388.
Published: 01 February 2022
...John B. Casterline; Laila O. El-Zeini Abstract The last four decades have witnessed large declines in fertility globally. This study uses data from 78 low- and middle-income countries to examine concurrent trends in unwanted fertility. Three measures of unwanted fertility are contrasted...
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Published: 08 October 2015
Fig. 2 Predicted probability of marriage and nonmarital fertility for low-SES women by state-level unemployment rate (shading shows the 95 % confidence intervals) More
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Demography (1992) 29 (4): 595–612.
Published: 01 November 1992
...Carl P. Schmertmann Abstract A sustained regime of low fertility plus immigration yields an unusual kind of stationary population. The author demonstrates that all stationary populations have a common structure, and that the familiar replacement-level fertility population is the youngest among...
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Demography (2023) 60 (2): 563–582.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Jisoo Hwang Abstract South Korea and other developed regions in East Asia have become forerunners of prolonged lowest-low fertility. South Korea's total fertility rate has been below 1.3 for two decades, the longest duration among OECD countries. Using vital statistics and census data, I study...
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Demography (1974) 11 (4): 657–672.
Published: 01 November 1974
... decrease in counties of comparatively low fertility than in those with higher fertility. Low fertility is, therefore, a contributing factor to the imbalance between births and deaths, but the amount of influence of fertility adjustment over the fertility differentials among county groups cannot...
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Demography (2011) 48 (3): 815–839.
Published: 12 July 2011
... the evolution of TFR into three phases: pre-transition high fertility, the fertility transition, and post-transition low fertility. The model for the fertility decline builds on the United Nations Population Division’s current deterministic projection methodology, which assumes that fertility will eventually...
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Demography (2024) 61 (5): 1585–1611.
Published: 01 October 2024
... of fertility transitions across low- and middle-income countries. Our results confirm that household wealth, reduced child mortality, and female primary education are crucial for fertility declines. However, our analysis also highlights the importance of indicators of structural economic change, including...
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Demography (1967) 4 (2): 657–672.
Published: 01 June 1967
... contrasting patterns can be detected. On one side stands the very low fertility of the North and of the Center, mostly below replacement in the last thirty years;on the other, the still high fertility of the South. In the North and in the Center, where the decline started earlier, fertility has fallen well...
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Demography (2004) 41 (4): 801–819.
Published: 01 November 2004
...Robert Schoen Abstract Low fertility levels and later childbearing in many developed countries have reinvigorated the debate between period and cohort perspectives on fertility and on the meaningfulness of the period total fertility rate (TFR). Here, fertility-timing effects are defined as level...
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Demography (1967) 4 (2): 641–656.
Published: 01 June 1967
..., with Chinese and Indian fertility about 5 percent and 10 percent higher, respectively. The comparatively low fertility of the Malays was owing to the exceptionally high rate of divorce, which meant unstable marriages and shorter periods of exposure to the risk of childbearing. A fairly well-defined pattern...
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Demography (1992) 29 (2): 199–214.
Published: 01 May 1992
...William D. Mosher; Linda B. Williams; David P. Johnson Abstract In the United States, the baby boom-era pattern of high Catholic and low Protestant fertility has ended. Among non-Hispanic whites in the 1980s, Catholic total fertility rates (TFRs) were about one-quarter of a child lower than...
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Demography (2017) 54 (4): 1375–1400.
Published: 31 July 2017
... on fertility declines in other countries suggest that China’s program-averted population numbered 360–520 million as of 2015. The low end of this range is based on Vietnam—China’s best national comparator, with a two-child program of its own—and the high end is based on a 16-country comparator selected...
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