Abstract The United States has experienced a sustained fertility decline, with those currently
in their childbearing years facing unique constraints. Drawing from the Theory of …

In the post‐Recession era, US fertility rates have continued to fall. It is unclear if these
declines are driven by shifts in fertility goals or growing difficulty in achieving goals. In this …

The decline in fertility rates across Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD) nations has been the subject of considerable debate over the past …

We study the aggregate gap between intended and actual fertility in 19 European countries
and the US based on a cohort approach. This complements prior research that had mainly …

US fertility declined as expected during the Great Recession, but then continued to fall
throughout the recovery period. This drop was more acute among young women and …

We examine trends in demographic drivers of fertility—including fertility intentions,
postponed childbearing, and unintended pregnancy—to better understand the decline of US …

Building on a framework suggested by Bongaarts (2001) and using data from the 1979
National LongitudinalSurvey of Youth, we describe the correspondencebetween intended …

About 50 studies based on the 1988 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) and a
telephone reinterview conducted with the same women two years later provide continuing …

This paper grounds its analysis in a novel model (Bachrach and Morgan in Popul Dev Rev,
39: 459–485, 2013) that suggests that responses to questions about fertility intentions may …

People's childbearing intentions change over the course of their reproductive lives. these
changes have been conceptualized as occurring in response to the realization that an …