Forecasting has always been at the forefront of decision making and planning. The
uncertainty that surrounds the future is both exciting and challenging, with individuals and …

Background Understanding subnational variation in age-specific fertility rates (ASFRs) and
total fertility rates (TFRs), and geographical clustering of high fertility and its determinants in …

This study investigates spatial variation in fertility in Europe. We analyse spatial variation in
total fertility rates using small‐scale geographical data from 21 European countries for 2010 …

Educational differences in female cohort fertility vary strongly across high-income countries
and over time, but knowledge about how educational fertility differentials play out at the sub …

In the 50th anniversary edition of Population Studies, John Hobcraft commented that
demographers spend too little time trying to explain the phenomena they measure and …

The literature suggests a positive link between homeownership and the transition to
parenthood. However, in recent decades, couples' preference for becoming homeowners …

With China's termination of the longstanding one-child policy and its implementation of a
universal two-child policy since 2016, it remains an open empirical question whether the …

Although Japan has entered a phase of population decline due to decades of low fertility,
studies on the determinants of fertility choices among Japanese couples remain sparse …

The decline in fertility across advanced nations is a well‐known fact. Becker famously
argued that declining rates of childbirth were the by‐product of higher levels of economic …

Fertility patterns in Nigeria are high and widely skewed away from the targets of the country's
population policy. As population growth is fueled by natural increase and migration, and with …