the paper in details, and thereby also a rationale for a positive impact of increased gender equality on fertility. As the … dual-earner family is here to stay, and given the well-known negative consequences of long-term very low fertility for a …

Sweden, 1991-2009. Net of demographic and socioeconomic controls, medical doctors are more likely to continue childbearing …

During recent decades fertility in Sweden has evolved in tandem with the business cycle. Supported by social policies … women and men and for Swedish- and foreign-born people in Sweden. We use a combination of Labor Force Survey data on …

by Andersson (2000) and B. Hoem (2000). Both of them found pro-cyclical patterns of fertility in Sweden during the 1980s …

In this paper we apply tempo-adjusted period parity progression ratios (Kohler and Ortega 2002) to Sweden, the … interest for demographers. The goal of our analyses is to (a) describe past fertility trends in these countries in terms of … synthetic cohorts and (b) project the level and distribution of completed fertility in cohorts who have not finished …

Sweden is the forerunner of the Second Demographic Transition. Fertility trends have fluctuated greatly since the 1960s …, and the 1990s showed both European-highest and lowest-ever-in-Sweden levels, while the cohort pattern has been relatively …, based on the principle of equality across social groups and gender, seem to play an important role in keeping fertility …

distinct implications caused by delays in childbearing: tempo distortions imply an underestimation of the quantum of fertility … in observed period data, and the fertility aging effect reduces higher parity births because the respective exposure is … provide means to assess the latter aging effect. The measures therefore provide a unified toolkit of fertility indices that (a …

The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of recent trends in childbearing in neighboring Norway and Sweden. We … contrast their fertility developments over the last four decades. Our indexes enable us to decompose overall fertility trends … picture of various cross-country differences in fertility levels. We demonstrate how Swedish fertility has fluctuated …