In the past few decades, demographic concerns have shifted from rapid population growth
fueled by high fertility to concerns of population decline produced by very low, sub …

Objectives-This report presents nationally representative estimates and trends for infertility
and impaired fecundity-two measures of fertility problems among women aged 15-44 in the …

Lowest‐low fertility, defined as a period total fertility rate at or below 1.3, has rapidly spread
in Europe during the 1990s. This article traces the emergence of this new phenomenon to …

Proponents of the" new home economics" hypothesize that women's growing economic
independence largely accounts for the rise in delayed marriage and motherhood in …

A very special debt of gratitude is owed to George C. Myers, former director of the Center for
Demographic Studies at Duke University, who passed away in 2000. Not only did Dr. Myers …

Direct evidence on age patterns of infecundity and sterility cannot be obtained from
contemporary populations because such large fractions of couples use contraception or …

Including new developments and publications which have appeared since the publication of
the first edition in 1995, this second edition:* gives a comprehensive introductory account of …

Nowadays, event history analysis can draw on a well-established set of statistical tools for
the description and causal analysis of event history data. This second edition of our book …

The fertility of preindustrial societies has long been of interest to biological anthropologists,
archaeologists, and ethnologists. Until recently, however, anthropological research on this …

A sociology of age provides an analytical framework for understanding the interplay
between human lives and changing social structures. Its mission is to examine the …