Childlessness in Korea: Role of education, marriage postponement, and marital childlessness [PDF]
Demographic ResearchBACKGROUND: In Korea, where marriage and childbirth are inextricably linked, the number of childless women is rising. Aside from the increase in permanent unmarried women, the prevalence of late marriage limits a woman’s reproductive period, raises the ...
Misun Lee, Kryštof Zeman
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Childlessness and Economic Development : A Survey
, 2019 International audienceThis paper provides an introduction to the analysis of childlessness, first by describing the stylized facts and the relevant literature, and then by proposing a theoretical framework.
Baudin, Thomas +2 more
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Education and Childlessness: The Influence of Educational Field and Educational Level on Childlessness among Swedish and Austrian Women [PDF]
, 2017 This article deals with the question of how different institutional structures affect ultimate levels of childlessness. We compare rates of childlessness by educational field and educational level among women born in 1955–1959 in two different welfare ...
Neyer, Gerda +8 more
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Trends in cohort fertility among Chinese women [PDF]
Demographic ResearchBACKGROUND: China’s continuous decline in births has attracted scholarly and policy attention. However, total fertility rates are affected by tempo effects and may not accurately reflect the underlying fertility level. OBJECTIVE: We examine cohort trends
Tian Wang, Quanbao Jiang
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The phenomenon of women childlessness in Russia: historical and social background [PDF]
Социологический журнал, 2014 Over the past 200 years, the birth rate in our country has undergone major changes; as a result the study of the childless as a population group is of considerable interest to researchers.
R. T. Fakhrislamova
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The Male Childlessness the Perspective of Hegemonic Masculinity
Gender a Výzkum, 2020 In contemporary (not only) Czech society, the share of childless persons is increasing. Research in the field of social sciences focuses mainly on explanation of female childlessness than male one.
Hana Maříková
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Using Polygenic Scores in Social Science Research: Unraveling Childlessness
Frontiers in Sociology, 2019 Biological, genetic, and socio-demographic factors are all important in explaining reproductive behavior, yet these factors are typically studied in isolation.
Renske M. Verweij +20 more
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The new WHO infertility guideline: A universal right to equitable, evidence‐based fertility care
International Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.Abstract The WHO ‘Guideline for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of infertility’ heralds a significant global shift towards recognizing infertility as a medical condition requiring prevention, diagnosis, treatment and policy support. This recognition is vital for the one in six people with infertility worldwide and for policymakers trying to ...
M. Louise Hull +19 more
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The role of childlessness in changes in cohort fertility: Cross-national comparisons of countries in Europe, East Asia, and North America [PDF]
Demographic ResearchBACKGROUND: Much attention has been paid recently to the large decline in period fertility in many countries since 2010. In the Nordic countries and England and Wales much of it can be attributed to the decline in first-birth rates, suggesting higher ...
John Ermisch
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, 2017 Childlessness has been on the rise in many European societies. In Germany, the UK, Austria, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, childlessness has increased starting with the 1950s cohorts.
Kreyenfeld, Michaela +3 more
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