Nonmarital cohabitation and marriage are now fundamentally linked, a fact that is routinely
reflected in current research on union formation. Unprecedented changes in the timing …

References to the second demographic transition (SDT) have increased dramatically in the
past two decades. The SDT predicts unilinear change toward very low fertility and a diversity …

How persistent and universal has the two child family ideal been in Europe during the last
three decades? We analyze responses of women of reproductive age from 168 surveys …

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 …

This working paper provides an overview of trends in female and male childlessness in
Europe over the last decades and explores associations between cohort childlessness and …

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 …

The ongoing transition to low fertility is, alongside the long-term expansion of life
expectancy, the key force reshaping populations around the world. It has sweeping …

Remaining childless is a process which is influenced by the continuously changing context
in which an individual woman lives, and by the many choices she makes in various life …

Interest in Britain in the causes and consequences of childlessness has grown since the
1980s in response to the increase in voluntary childlessness from very low levels in the …