Laboratory

Fertility and Well-Being

At a Glance Projects Publications Team

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The early 21^st century presents us with vast variation and surprising shifts in fertility patterns around the globe, such as the flattening of the previously negative association between socioeconomic development and fertility. However, we also observe important regularities such as nearly-universal postponement of fertility. The work in the Laboratory of Fertility and Well-Being focuses on improving our understanding of the determinants of both the variation and regularities in contemporary fertility trends.   Detailed Description

Selected Publications

John, B.; Nitsche, N.:

Dynamics of union dissolution in sub-Saharan Africa

Population and Development Review 48:4, 1163–1201. (2022)    

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)    

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)    

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)