In most western societies, marital fertility began to decline in the nineteenth century. But in Ireland, fertility in … marriage remained stubbornly high into the twentieth century. Explanations of Ireland's late entry to the fertility transition … Irish outside of Ireland behaved the same way. This paper investigates these claims by examining the marital fertility of …

We project the religious composition of the United States to 2043, considering fertility differences, migration …, intergenerational religious transmission and conversion by 11 ethnoreligious groups. If fertility and migration trends continue … younger age groups. Immigration drives growth among Hindus and Muslims, while low fertility explains decline among Jews. The …

In most western societies, marital fertility began to decline in the nineteenth century. But in Ireland, fertility in …. This paper investigates these claims by examining the marital fertility of Irish Americans in 1900 and 1910. We find that … Irish fertility patterns did not survive the Atlantic crossing. The Irish in America had smaller families than couples in …

demographic events and processes, like fertility behaviour, international migration and ageing, from an international perspective …

We study the effect of child care costs on the fertility behavior of Swedish women and find that reductions in child … care charges influence fertility decisions, even when costs are initially highly subsidized. Exploiting the exogenous … costs on fertility in a context in which child care enrolment is almost universal and the labor force participation of …

China and India, two Asian countries that experienced a rapid decline in fertility since the middle of the twentieth … century, are the focus of this paper. Although there is no doubt that lower fertility levels have many positive effects on the … of fertility. Firstly, implementing policies that have the potential to reduce fertility is costly. Secondly, additional …

determinants of fertility can be measured when at risk rather than ex-post, thus helping to reduce the risk of reverse causality … average, a different birth history trajectory, but with negligible curtailment of completed fertility. …