Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/96971 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
Vienna Institute of Demography Working Papers No. 09/2006
Publisher: 
Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Vienna Institute of Demography (VID), Vienna
Abstract: 
Recent studies on fertility in Europe indicate the changing cross-country correlation between fertility and key fertility-related indicators. Fertility now tends to be lowest in countries that are traditional, catholic and family oriented, while fertility is highest in countries with high divorce rates, high rates of cohabitation and high levels of extra-marital fertility. In this paper we provide support to the argument that the change in the crosscountry correlation between fertility and fertility-related behaviour may indicate a change in social context of this fertility-related behaviour that has helped to uncover cross-country differences in social norms, culture and institutional settings. We apply pooled time series analysis and show that time and country heterogeneity in the effect of key-fertility related behaviour on fertility can explain the change in the cross-country correlation. Our results also indicate that further postponement of key-fertility related behaviour results into less pronounced declines in fertility.
Subjects: 
Cross-country correlation
low fertility
mean age at first birth
mean age at first marriage
total divorce rate
extra-marital birth
postponement of fertility
pooled time series analysis
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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