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

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)    

Ciganda, D.; Todd, N.:

Demographic models of the reproductive process: past, interlude, and future

Population Studies 76:3, 495–513. (2022)       

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

Demography 58:4, 1373–1399. (2021)    

John, B.; Adjiwanou, V.:

Fertility decline in sub-Saharan Africa: does remarriage matter?

Population Studies 76:2, 213–233. (2022)    

Nitsche, N.; Brückner, H.:

Late, but not too late? Postponement of first birth among highly educated U.S. women

European Journal of Population 37:2, 371–403. (2021)