Preface | Editors for this volume / Authors for this volume | Introduction | The Postponement of Childbearing in Europe: Driving Forces and Implications | Articles | Gender Equality, Parenthood Attitudes, and First Births in Sweden | Family Formation in France: Individual Preferences and Subsequent Outcomes | Does Sex Matter? Ageing and Ability to Conceive | The Postponement of Motherhood and its Child Health Consequences: Birth Weight and Weight Gain during the First Year of Life | The Tempo and Quantum of Life-Cycle Events | How Late Can First Births Be Postponed? Some Illustrative Population-level Calculations | The Low Fertility Trap Hypothesis. Forces that May Lead to Further Postponement and Fewer Births in Europe | Temporarily New: On Low Fertility and the Prospect of Pro-natal Policies | An Assessment of Policies that Support Having Children from the Perspectives of Equity, Efficiency and Efficacy | Guidelines for Authors

The 2006 issue of the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research focuses on delayed childbearing and its impact on fertility trends. It explores causes, trends and implications of later reproduction, discusses policy options and responses as well as the likely future continuation of the shift to later parenthood. The contributions include studies analysing trends to later childbearing, their drivers and implications (articles by Billari et al., Bernhard and Goldscheider, Testa and Toulemon), novel theoretical perspectives (the “low fertility trap hypothesis” by Lutz et al.), methodological contributions (Bongaarts and Feeney’s article on the tempo and quantum of life cycle events), as well as a modelling study on the limits of fertility postponement (Goldstein’s contribution). The volume also features an empirical assessment of the link between age and ability to conceive (Rizzi and Rosina), and analyses the health consequences of delayed motherhood for children (Matsuo). Two contributions (by van de Kaa and McDonald critically assess pronatalist policies and available policy options.   

Postponement of childbearing in Europe

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Francesco C. Billari

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