Archives

The study found lower fertility rates in unions after 2010, increasing dissolution rates amongst cohabiting couples, and long-term declines in the transition to marriage. READ MORE

Daily lives of families raising 6-month-old children, together with the development of those children after the gestation period and the course of childbirth and its circumstances, as well as at [...]

As a lack of proper people to take care of babies is the primary factor that prevents childbearing, China is working to invest more to improve nursery institutions to decrease families’ burdens [...]

Economically inactive women experience faster motherhood transitions and have more children by age 40 than women with stable full-time careers. For men, having an unstable career associates with [...]

In order to better understand its driving forces, this study examines whether it is driven by differential behavior or compositional changes across population subgroups, for the empirical case of [...]

The collapse in fertility coupled with increased longevity leads to a rapid ageing of societies. The working age population of the 38 member countries of the OECD is projected to decline by [...]

Several Chinese cities have introduced new policies to help families with multiple children buy a home. Hangzhou, for example, has released a referential policy for the housing provident [...]

Birth data for 2021 released by 29 provinces and regions in China so far showed that the number of new births in 2021 was the lowest in decades in several provinces, and only 6 among the top 10 [...]

The decline in U.S. fertility is closely related to the decline in marriage. Finding the right partner with whom to have children trumps economic reasons. [Wendy Wang – Institute for Family [...]

In 2020, 4.07 million babies were born in the EU, continuing a downward trend which began in 2008 when 4.68 million children were born in the EU. [Eurostat, 28 April 2022.] READ MORE