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

In most parts of Europe, childlessness and non-marriage were common phenomena during
the course of the demographic transition (Rowland 2007), and contributed to the fertility …

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 …

BACKGROUND The long-term decline in cohort fertility in highly developed countries has
been widely documented. However, no systematic analysis has investigated which parity …

BACKGROUND Childlessness has increased in many European countries. Partnerships
and parenthood are obviously closely related, but there is relatively little knowledge on how …

Two main factors arguably account for the fact that the negative gradient of fertility by
educational attainment, which has been prevalent in developed countries in most of the 20th …

The role of historical change for individual functioning and development has long been a
central feature of life span psychological and life course sociological theory. However, the …

We provide new evidence on the education-fertility relationship by using EU-SILC panel
data on 24 European countries to investigate how couples' educational pairings predict their …

Childlessness has been on the rise in many European societies. In Germany, the UK,
Austria, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, childlessness has increased starting with the …

Comparing employment rates of mothers and childless women over the life course across
the birth cohorts from 1940 to 1979 in Austria, we address the question of whether the …