than men. These results, which are similar in Britain and Germany, suggest that childbearing increases parental happiness …

This paper compares the non-marital birth pattern in France and West Germany. Since the beginning of the eighties …, France witnessed a steady increase in non-marital birth rates, while in West Germany non-marital birth rates have remained at … Rhine which hamper or foster childbearing in cohabiting unions. In West Germany, family policies are based on the model of …

. Gender is the key to understanding fertility decisions within all three levels. Migration from Africa to France is considered …

Some 20 years after unification, the contrast between East and West Germany provides a unique natural experiment for … of fertility postponement. After unification, fertility rates plummeted in the former East Germany to record low levels … middle of the 1990s, however, period fertility rates have been rising in East Germany, in contrast to the nearly constant …

The paper presents the project of an aggregative reconstruction of the population of Ger-many from the sixteenth … increased, life expectancies rose, and the positive check disappeared. Thus, Germany became a non-Malthusian economy well before …

In the twenty years since the reunification of Germany, we have seen a convergence of total fertility rates in the …