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, Nicolas Todd, Mikko Myrskylä, Natalie Nitsche; in Collaboration with multiple researchers The EAPS Working Group on Register-Based Fertility Research (European Association for Population Studies, The Hague, World), Ryohei Mogi (University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark), Peter Fallesen (Rockwool Foundation Berlin, Institute for the Economy and the Future of Work, Germany)

There is increasing evidence of substantial shifts in how the development of human populations and the socioeconomic status of individuals are related to fertility. This project identifies 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 77:1, 1–14. (2023)    

Abufhele, A.; Pesando, L. M.; Castro Torres, A. F.:

Parental educational similarity and inequality implications for infant health in Chile: evidence from administrative records, 1990–2015

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 82:100736, 1–14. (2022)    

Castro Torres, A. F.:

Family formation trajectories and migration in the United States by the end of the 20th century

Current Sociology, 1–30. (2022)    

Castro Torres, A. F.:

Domestic migration and family formation and dissolution trajectories in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1950-2000

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-002. (2022)    

Castro Torres, A. F.; Batyra, E.; Myrskylä, M.:

Income inequality and increasing dispersion of the transition to first birth in the Global South

Population and Development Review 48:1, 189–215. (2022)    

Castro Torres, A. F.; Gutierrez Vazquez, E. Y.:

Gendered and stratified family formation trajectories in the context of Latin American migration, 1950 to 2000

International Migration Review 56:4, 1107–1140. (2022)    

Castro Torres, A. F.; Gutierrez Vazquez, E. Y.; Bernardes, T.:

Power relations and persistent low fertility among domestic workers in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-003. (2022)    

Castro Torres, A. F.; Parrado, E. A.:

Nativity differentials in first births in the United States: patterns by race and ethnicity

Demographic Research 46:2, 37–64. (2022)    

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

Less partnering, less children, or both? Analysis of the drivers of first birth decline in Finland since 2010

European Journal of Population 38:2, 191–221. (2022)    

Liu, C.; Castro Torres, A. F.; Batyra, E.:

A gender story of social disengagement in Latin America

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-004. (2022)    

Castro Torres, A. F.; Batyra, E.; Myrskylä, M.:

Income inequality and increasing dispersion of the transition to first birth in the Global South

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2021-009. (2021)    

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

Less partnering, less children, or both? Analysis of the drivers of first-birth decline in Finland since 2010?

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2021-008. (2021)    

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

Cross-sectional average length of life childless

Demography 58:1, 321–344. (2021)    

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 37:1, 263–295. (2021)    

Todd, N.; Lerch, M.:

Socioeconomic development predicts a weaker contraceptive effect of breastfeeding

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118:29, 1–6. (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.; Gutierrez Vazquez, E. Y.:

Gendered and stratified family formation trajectories in the context of Latin American migration, 1950 to 2000

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-027. (2020)    

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

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

Population Studies 74:3, 315–329. (2020)    

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

Hedelmällisyys ja siihen vaikuttavat tekijät Suomessa lähivuosikymmeninä

Yhteiskuntapolitiikka 85:4, 358–369. (2020)    

Nitsche, N.; Hayford, S.:

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

Demography 57:6, 1975–2001. (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, e2342–e2342. (2020)    

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)