Laboratory

Fertility and Well-Being

At a Glance Projects Publications Team

Project

Analyzing Male Fertility: Toward a Comparative Approach

Conducted by Mikko Myrskylä; Christian Dudel, Susie Lee, Mathias Lerch, Kieron Barclay; in Collaboration with Jessica Nisén (University of Helsinki, Finland), Sebastian Klüsener (Federal Institute for Population Research, Wiesbaden, Germany), Martin Kolk (Stockholm University, Sweden)

We demonstrate considerable variation in the differences between male and female fertility across countries and over time in both the quantum and timing of fertility. We also develop and evaluate approaches to address the lack of data on male fertility, including reproductive maturation as captured by pubertal timing.  Detailed Description

Publications

Schubert, H.-A.; Dudel, C.:

Too many men? Subnational population imbalances and male childlessness in Finland

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-010. (2024)    

Schubert, H.-A.; Skirbekk, V.; Nisén, J.:

Secularization and low fertility: how declining church membership changes couples and their childbearing

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-040. (2024)    

Dudel, C.; Cheng, Y. A.; Klüsener, S.:

Shifting parental age differences in high-income countries: insights and implications

Population and Development Review. accepted. (2023)    

Lee, D. S.; Semenchenko, H.:

Father absence and pubertal timing in Korean boys and girls

Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, 1–11. (2023)    

Schubert, H.-A.; Dudel, C.; Kolobova, M.; Myrskylä, M.:

Revisiting the J-shape: human development and fertility in the United States

Demography, 1–25. (2023)    

Schubert, H.-A.; Dudel, C.; Kolobova, M.; Myrskylä, M.:

Revisiting the J-shape: human development and fertility in the United States

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-022. (2023)    

Dudel, C.; Klüsener, S.:

Male-female fertility differentials across 17 high-income countries: insights from a new data resource

European Journal of Population 37:2, 417–441. (2021)    

Dudel, C.; Cheng, Y. A.; Klüsener, S.:

The unexplored parental age gap in an era of fertility postponement

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-018. (2020)    

Pötzsch, O.; Klüsener, S.; Dudel, C.:

Wie hoch ist die Kinderzahl von Männern?

WISTA - Wirtschaft und Statistik 2020:5, 59–77. (2020)    

Dudel, C.; Klüsener, S.:

New opportunities for comparative male fertility research: insights from a new data resource based on high-quality birth registers

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2019-023. (2019)    

Dudel, C.; Klüsener, S.:

Estimating men's fertility from vital registration data with missing values

Population Studies 73:3, 439–449. (2019)    

Dudel, C.:

Die Kinder der Väter

Demografische Forschung Aus Erster Hand 14:2, 3–3. (2017)    

Dudel, C.; Klüsener, S.:

Estimating male fertility from vital registration data with missing values

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2017-019. (2017)