Declining rates of marriage and overall increases in union instability, combined with high
levels of unintended and nonmarital fertility, create the possibility for parents to have …

The authors of two recent articles in PDR claim that Western societies are entering a new
phase of family life based on stable, egalitarian partnerships and rebounding fertility. This is …

This article compares mothers' experience of having children with more than one partner in
two liberal welfare regimes (the United States and Australia) and two social democratic …

There is a long-standing debate on whether extensive Nordic family policies have the
intended equalizing effect on family and gender differences in economic outcomes. This …

Finland's increase in births, recorded in the months following the first two waves of the
COVID-19 pandemic, was among the strongest. We assess whether this fertility increase …

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 …

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 …

Educational differences in female cohort fertility vary strongly across high-income countries
and over time, but knowledge about how educational fertility differentials play out at the sub …

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 …

BACKGROUND Previous studies suggest that in some countries socioeconomic differences
in family formation are highly gendered, whereas gender-neutral patterns are reported in …