Laboratory

Fertility and Well-Being

At a Glance Projects Publications Team

Project

Shifts in the Fertility–Development Nexus at the Macro and Micro Level

Jessica Nisén (MPIDR / University of Helsinki, Finland), Aiva Jasilioniene, Daniel Ciganda, Andres Castro, Mathias Lerch, Angelo Lorenti, Nicolas Todd, Mikko Myrskylä, Natalie Nitsche; in Collaboration with Gunnar Andersson, Ben Wilson (both: Stockholm University, Sweden), Francesco C. Billari (University of Oxford, United Kingdom / Bocconi University, Milan, Italy), Lars Dommermuth (Statistics Norway, Oslo, Norway), Diego R. Farinas (The Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, Spain), Jonathan Fox (Free University of Berlin, Germany), Sebastian Klüsener (Federal Institute for Population Research, Wiesbaden, Germany), Hans-Peter Kohler (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA), Michaela Kreyenfeld (Hertie School of Governance GmbH, Berlin, Germany), Hill Kulu (University of St Andrews, United Kingdom), Trude Lappegård (University of Oslo, Norway), Pekka Martikainen (University of Helsinki, Finland), Karel Neels, Jonas Wood (both: University of Antwerp, Belgium), Bernhard Riederer (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Institute of Demography, Austria), Vladislava Stankuniene (Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania), Laurent Toulemon (French National Institute for Demographic Studies, Paris, France), Francisco Viciana (Institute of Statistics and Cartography of Andalusia, Sevilla, Spain), Ruben Van Gaelen (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)

There is increasing evidence of substantial shifts in how the development of human populations and the socioeconomic status of individuals are related to fertility in highly developed parts of the world. This project aims to identify the determinants of these shifts.  Detailed Description

Publications

Mogi, R.; Lazzari, E.; Nisén, J.; Canudas Romo, V.:

Cross-sectional average length of life by parity: country comparisons

Population Studies, 1–14. (2022)    

Mogi, R.; Nisén, J.; Canudas-Romo, V.:

Cross-sectional average length of life childless

Demography 58:1, 321–344. (2021)    

Wood, J.; Marynissen, L.; Nisén, J.; Fallesen, P.; Neels, K.; Trimarchi, A.; Dommermuth, L.; Van Gaalen, R.; Kolk, M.; Martikainen, P.:

Regional variation in women’s education-fertility nexus in Northern and Western Europe

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2021-021. (2021)    

Castro Torres, A. F.:

Analysis of Latin American fertility change in terms of probable social classes

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-001. (2020)    

Hellstrand, J.; Nisén, J.; Miranda, V.; Fallesen, P.; Dommermuth, L.; Myrskylä, M.:

Not just later, but fewer: novel trends in cohort fertility in the Nordic countries

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-007. (2020)    

Hellstrand, J.; Nisén, J.; Myrskylä, M.:

All-time low period fertility in Finland: demographic drivers, tempo effects, and cohort implications

Population Studies, 1–15. (2020)    

Nisén, J.; Klüsener, S.; Dahlberg, J.; Dommermuth, L.; Jasilioniene, A.; Kreyenfeld, M.; Lappegård, T.; Li, P.; Martikainen, P.; Neels, K.; Riederer, B.; te Riele, S.; Szabó, L.; Trimarchi, A.; Viciana, F.; Myrskylä, M.; Wilson, B.:

Educational differences in cohort fertility across sub-national regions in Europe

European Journal of Population 2020:Online First, 1–33. (2020)    

Nitsche, N.; Hayford, S.:

Preferences, partners, and parenthood: linking early fertility desires, marriage timing, and achieved fertility

Demography. (2020)    

Wood, J.; Klüsener, S.; Neels, K.; Myrskylä, M.:

Shifting links in the relationship between education and fertility: subnational spatial insights from the Belgian case

Population, Space and Place 26:8. (2020)    

Ciganda, D.; Todd, N.:

The limits to fertility recuperation

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2019-024. (2019)    

Fox, J. F.; Klüsener, S.; Myrskylä, M.:

Is a positive relationship between fertility and economic development emerging at the sub-national regional level? Theoretical considerations and evidence from Europe

European Journal of Population 35:3, 487–518. (2019)    

Hellstrand, J.; Nisén, J.; Myrskylä, M.:

All-time low period fertility in Finland: drivers, tempo effects, and cohort implications

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2019-006. (2019)    

Nisén, J.; Klüsener, S.; Dahlberg, J.; Dommermuth, L.; Jasilioniene, A.; Kreyenfeld, M.; Lappegård, T.; Li, P.; Martikainen, P.; Neels, K.; Riederer, B.; te Riele, S.; Szabó, L.; Trimarchi, A.; Viciana, F.; Wilson, B.; Myrskylä, M.:

Educational differences in cohort fertility across sub-national regions in Europe

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2019-018. (2019)    

Riffe, T.; Barclay, K. J.; Klüsener, S.; Bohk-Ewald, C.:

Boom, echo, pulse, flow: 385 years of Swedish births

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2019-002. (2019)    

Nisén, J.; Martikainen, P.; Myrskylä, M.; Silventoinen, K.:

Education, other socioeconomic characteristics across the life course, and fertility among Finnish men

European Journal of Population 34:3, 337–366. (2018)    

Wood, J.; Klüsener, S.; Neels, K.; Myrskylä, M.:

Is a positive link between human development and fertility attainable? Insights from the Belgian vanguard case

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2017-014. (2017)    

Klüsener, S.; Dribe, M.; Scalone, F.:

Spatial and social distance in the fertility transition: Sweden 1880-1900

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2016-009. (2016)    

Fox, J. F.; Klüsener, S.; Myrskylä, M.:

Is a positive relationship between fertility and economic development emerging at the sub-national regional level? Theoretical considerations and evidence from Europe

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2015-006. (2015)