In the course of the twentieth century, social scientists and policy analysts have produced a
large volume of literature on whether policies boost fertility. This paper describes the results …

Objectives Along with the development of the times and progress of the society, the total
fertility rate (TFR) markedly changed in each country. Therefore, it is critical to describe the …

South Korea and other developed regions in East Asia have become forerunners of
prolonged lowest-low fertility. South Korea's total fertility rate has been below 1.3 for two …

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 …

This article reviews research on the role social and family policies play for fertility in Sweden.
Swedish family policies are not directly aimed at encouraging childbirth. Their main goal has …

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

The ongoing period fertility decline in the Nordic countries is particularly strong in Finland,
where the total fertility rate (TFR) reached an all-time low of 1.41 in 2018. We analyse the …

Using data from the first Census data set that includes complete measures of male biological
fertility for a large-scale probability sample of the US population (the 2014 wave of the Study …

The percentage of people without children over their lifetime is approximately 25% in men
and 20% in women. Individual diseases have been linked to childlessness, mostly in …

Objective This study examines whether fatherhood sparks the wage attainment of men or
rather entry into fatherhood is simply more typical for high‐earning men and at times of wage …