We investigate the determinants of the fertility decline in Europe from 1830 to 1970 using a
newly constructed data set of linguistic distances between European regions. The decline …

… rate as a consequence of modernization is common, but historical demographic studies
in Europe have so far produced no clear evidence of an increase in fertility there in the initial …

… Western conception of the modern. We analyze the national fertility control program's
domestication of modernity through a selective indigenization of modernity's core values, …

… of fertility and fertility change. Next, I summarize the recent evidence on fertility levels and
trends in … Acн cording to Caldwell, there are few economic incentives for fertility in modern child-…

… why women in late modern developed societies continue to … of self-identity in late modernity,
life course theory, feminist … to illuminate features of late modern fertility that have not been …

… its status as a means to modern honor, as I will show. … European fertility transition was achieved
not through modern, … which are also central to fertility management in southern Cameroon…

… achieve a durable and confident modernity. Just as Viagra is designed to pump life into an
impotent man, so, we argue, does the discursive incitement around the low fertility attempt to …

… Near-global fertility decline began in the 1960s, and from the 1980s an increasing number
… low fertility (total fertility below 1.5) with little likelihood of completed cohort fertility reaching …

… modernity’2 in Ireland—a complex of various demographic behaviors (including migration and
fertility) and … And I argue that Irish modernity is a particular refraction of common European …