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 …

from work, any unemployment benefits, and any public support for educational activities. We also have employment trends in …

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 …

In the present note, we present the main features of recent trends in vital family-demographic behavior in Sweden. For …

child-care, which allows women to return to work after parental leave. Fertility has fluctuated during recent decades but … Swedish context clearly is conducive to such “highest-low” fertility. In this study, I show that institutional factors seem to …

We investigate the timing of fertility and marriage as it depends on educational attainment utilizing a birth …-month experiment in Sweden that leads to exogenous variation in the age at completing schooling. Our analysis finds that the difference … second births and the age at first marriage, but it does not affect completed fertility or the overall probability to marry …

We study the link between institutional arrangements and fertility, focusing on how institutions affect the nexus … between partnership formation and fertility. We apply simultaneous hazard models to family and fertility survey data for … Germany and Sweden. Our results show a significant presence of correlated unobserved factors that affect both partnership …

This is the second of two companion papers addressing the association between educational attainment and fertility for … ultimate fertility decreases somewhat with an increasing educational level, but its dependence on the field of education is … ultimate fertility, and educational groups with much childlessness have relatively low ultimate fertility. In particular, women …

reached, fertility in Europe at ages 40+ and 45+ has increased substantially in recent years. This trend received considerable … fertility. Nevertheless, physiological studies agree on the fact that age limits to childbearing, at least for women, have not … shifted to later ages. Our empirical analyses of high-quality long-term data from Sweden document an increase in the absolute …