BACKGROUND Education is positively associated with completed fertility rate (CFR) among
men in Nordic countries, but the age patterns of fertility by educational level are poorly …

The level of education and other adult socioeconomic characteristics of men are known to
associate with their fertility, but early-life socioeconomic characteristics may also be related …

Systematic comparisons of fertility developments based on education, gender and country
context are rare. Using harmonized register data, we compare cohort total fertility and …

An inverse association between education and fertility in women has been found in many
societies but the causes of this association remain inadequately understood. We …

Most research on trends in socio-economic fertility differences has focused on cohort total
fertility and on women. This study aimed to analyse how cohort trends in parity-specific …

Education and fertility (including childrearing) are foundational processes in societal
metabolism, and the relationship between them can have profound, long-term effects on a …

BACKROUND More than downplayed, the role of men in the demographic analysis of
reproduction has been entirely neglected. However, male fertility can be an important issue …

Background While fertility rates have decreased during the second half of the 20th century in
Japan, little is known regarding trends in the number of children that men and women have …

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 …

Previous analyses of period fertility suggest that the trends of the Nordic countries are
sufficiently similar that we may speak of a common “Nordic fertility regime”. We investigate …