BACKGROUND The long-term decline in cohort fertility in highly developed countries has
been widely documented. However, no systematic analysis has investigated which parity …

We provide new evidence on the education-fertility relationship by using EU-SILC panel
data on 24 European countries to investigate how couples' educational pairings predict their …

Comparing employment rates of mothers and childless women over the life course across
the birth cohorts from 1940 to 1979 in Austria, we address the question of whether the …

Childbearing postponement is a key demographic change that has been experienced by
most European countries. It leads to a late-fertility pattern, with women realizing their …

This paper tests whether couples in which partners hold dissimilar gender role attitudes are
less likely to have a first child together compared to couples in which both partners share …

Extensive sociological research concludes that education informs people's desires for their
lives and plays an instrumental role in facilitating the fulfillment of those desires. In this …

We compare employment rates of mothers and childless women over the life course across
the birth cohorts from 1940 to 1979 in Austria. By following synthetic cohorts of mothers and …

Ministerstvo práce a sociálních věcí ČR v posledních měsících opakovaně informuje
veřejnost o svém záměru zpřístupnit asistovanou reprodukci (ART) osobám bez partnera …

This review highlights the challenges, priority areas of research and planning, strategies for
regulation of services and the need to develop guidelines and laws for fertility treatments …

Many authors argue that societal fertility levels are a function of changing gender relations,
but the mechanism behind this association remains unclear and mainly untested. This paper …