The rise in educational enrolment is often cited as a possible cause of the trend to later
childbearing in developed societies but direct evidence of its contribution to the aggregate …

In low-fertility contexts, how many children people have is largely a product of how many
children they want. However, the social, institutional, and individual factors that influence …

With historically similar patterns of high and stable cohort fertility and high levels of gender
equality, the Nordic countries of Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland are seen …

Following the swift demise of the state-socialist regime in 1989, a profound transformation of
family and fertility patterns has taken place in the Czech Republic. Family formation has …

In contrast to most other low-fertility regions, a sharp decline in fertility rates at young
reproductive ages in Latin America did not accompany the fall in period fertility to a …

According to the 'reproductive polarization'hypothesis, family-policy regimes unfavourable to
the combination of employment with motherhood generate greater socio-economic …

There are signs that fertility in rich countries may have stopped declining, but this depends
critically on whether women currently in reproductive ages are postponing or reducing …

Brazil entered the group of countries that had below-replacement fertility forty to fifty years
after the onset of fertility transition. The last decade also marks the onset of the so-called …

France and Britain in the 1980s and 1990s represented two contrasting institutional models
for the integration of employment and motherhood: the “universalistic” regime in France …

Background In the United States, mothers' employment status and occupation are related to
breastfeeding. However, it is unclear whether not working leads to longer breastfeeding …