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 …

for the realization of short-term childbearing intentions is tested in the low-fertility context of Germany. Our …

pattern of exceptional longevity in Germany by place of birth and place of death. We used a large dataset of exceptional … longevity that covered all recorded individuals who reached the age of 105 in Germany in the period 1991 to 2002 (N: 1,339). Our … research results show that, even in Germany, with its troubled 20th-century past, most of the semi-supercentenarians reached …

Germany is generally considered unsuccessful because changes in fertility and labor force participation were modest. However …

interesting test case. The economy in East Germany, but not in West Germany, underwent a rapid decline in 1991. In the same year …, the sex ratio decreased in East Germany, but not in West Germany. Catalano (2003) interpreted these developments as … ESH. First, the sex ratio in East Germany shows stronger deviations from the time trend in several years, and is seemingly …

in the two different institutional and normative contexts of Eastern and Western Germany. Using the German Socio … a second birth in Germany, due to the decline in allocation role strain. …