Laboratory

Fertility and Well-Being

At a Glance Projects Publications Team

Project

The Influence of Health and Cognition on Fertility

Susie Lee, Kieron Barclay, Natalie Nitsche; in Collaboration with Martin Kolk (Stockholm University, Sweden), Eugene Gardner, Matthew Hurles (both: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)

This project examines how dimensions of health such as body mass index and physical fitness, as well as cognition scores, are associated with completed cohort fertility, age at childbearing, parity progression, and other dimensions of fertility.  Detailed Description

Publications

Lee, D. S.; Nitsche, N.; Barclay, K. J.:

Body mass index in early adulthood and transition to first birth: racial/ethnic and sex differences in the United States NLSY79 cohort

Population Studies 77:2, 241–261. (2023)    

Kolk, M.; Barclay, K. J.:

Do income and marriage mediate the relationship between cognitive ability and fertility? Data from Swedish taxation and conscriptions registers for men born 1951-1967

Intelligence 84:101514, 1–11. (2021)    

Barclay, K. J.; Kolk, M.:

The influence of health in early adulthood on male fertility

Population and Development Review 46:4, 757–785. (2020)    

Gardner, E. J.; Neville, M. D. C.; Samocha, K. E.; Barclay, K. J.; Kolk, M.; Niemi, M. E. K.; Kirov, G.; Martin, H. C.; Hurles, M. E.:

Sex-biased reduction in reproductive success drives selective constraint on human genes

bioRxiv preprints. unpublished. (2020)    

Kolk, M.; Barclay, K. J.:

Do income and marriage mediate the relationship between cognitive ability and fertility? Data from Swedish taxation and conscriptions registers for men born 1951-1967

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-010. (2020)    

Barclay, K. J.; Kolk, M.:

The influence of health in early adulthood on male fertility

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2019-020. (2019)    

Kolk, M.; Barclay, K. J.:

Cognitive ability and fertility amongst Swedish men: evidence from 18 cohorts of military conscription

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2017-020. (2017)