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Role of Educational Attainment of Mothers in Child Delivery, Post Natal Check-Up, and Child Immunization in Urban India: A Study in the Context of Child Health
Child birth, postnatal check-up, and immunization are essential components of child healthHealth. In this context, the role of educational attainment...
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Experimental Data from Lacaune and Merino Sheep Provide New Methodological and Theoretical Grounds to Investigate Autumn Lambing in Past Husbandries
In temperate Europe, sheep predominantly mate in autumn and lamb in the spring. In contrast, present-day Mediterranean husbandries practice autumn...
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The Fertility Response to Cutting Child-Related Welfare Benefits
Despite long-term interest in whether welfare benefits motivate fertility, evidence from research has not been consistent. This paper contributes new...
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Is Two Still Best? Change in Parity-Specific Fertility Across Education in Low-Fertility Countries
The dominance of two-child families is considered an intrinsic characteristic of low fertility societies. Their share was continuously increasing...
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Intergenerational Transmission of Internal Migration Behaviour: Does Migration Experience in Childhood Matter?
This chapter examines the impact of childhood internal migration experience on migration behaviour in adulthood, considering the frequency and timing...
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A Life-Course Perspective on the Individualization Process in Post-collectivist China
After an introduction to the life-course perspective, this fourth chapter gives an overview of the research design. It details the reasons behind the...
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The Decline of Spanish Fertility: The Role of Religion
The Spanish total fertility rate declined from 2.8 to below 1.4 children per woman from 1975 to 2020. Spain is categorized as a “lowest-low...
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Transition to first birth during the Great Recession: the case of Greece
AbstractIn this study, we examine the effects of the economic uncertainty of partners on the transition to first birth in Greece before and after the...
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Social Investment Policies and Childbearing Across 20 Countries: Longitudinal and Micro-Level Analyses
This study analyses the influence of family policies on women’s first and second births in 20 countries over the period 1995 to 2007. Welfare states...
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Childbearing Biographies as a Method to Examine Diversity and Clustering of Childbearing Experiences: A Research Brief
Due to increasing heterogeneity in if, when, and under what conditions women have children, the timing, spacing, and other demographic aspects of...
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The impact of early-life exposure to high temperatures on child development: evidence from China
Child stunting, closely linked with economic loss in adulthood, is largely irreversible and mainly occurs in poor countries. We estimate the impact...
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Projecting the Contribution of Assisted Reproductive Technology to Completed Cohort Fertility
Assisted reproductive technology (ART) is increasingly influencing the fertility trends of high-income countries characterized by a pattern of...
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Multipartner Fertility and Psychological Distress: Evidence for Social Selection
Multipartner fertility (MPF), which occurs when individuals have children with multiple partners, is associated with psychological distress, but it...
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Parental Investment After the Birth of a Sibling: The Effect of Family Size in Low-Fertility China
A large body of research has examined the relationship between family size and child well-being in develo** countries, but most of this literature...
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Sustained and Universal Fertility Recuperation in Kazakhstan
The fertility rates of Kazakhstan have reversed to levels not seen for several decades. The striking fertility increase poses questions regarding the...
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Recent Trends in Birth Intervals in Sweden: A Decline of the Speed-Premium Effect?
The so-called speed-premium, introduced in Sweden in the 1980s and still in effect in 2018, grants some advantages regarding parental leave benefits...
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The Enduring Case for Fertility Desires
Persistently high levels of unintended fertility, combined with evidence that over- and underachieved fertility are typical and not exceptional, have...
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The Role of Fertility in the Demography of Grandparenthood: Evidence from Italy
Grandparents play an important role in their family’s lives. However, little is known about the demography of grandparenthood. Given dramatic recent...
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Continuum of maternal and new-natal health care: empirical evidence from 10 develo** countries in South and South East Asia
Maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity, particularly in develo** countries, are high even in the twenty-first century, which is a cause for...
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Speeding Up for a Son Among Immigrants in Canada
Parents are often not indifferent to the sex of their children. Indeed, while there is an overall preference for having mixed sexes in many Western...
