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Impact of the first federal paid maternity leave mandate in Switzerland on women’s employment and earnings around the birth of their first child and their subsequent fertility by exploiting [...]

“As the official COVID-19 death toll around the world passed 4 million earlier this month, UNICEF is increasingly concerned for children left without one or both parents”. [Henrietta Fore [...]

The pandemic “baby bust” could push 2021’s tally down even further; researchers have estimated that the coronavirus and its economic impact could lead to about 300,000 fewer births in the United [...]

The decision has been adopted by the Central Committee of the Communist Party to help improve China’s population structure, actively respond to the aging population, and preserve the country’s [...]

It’s a thorny problem with no easy solutions. Some, like Russia, have tried throwing money at it, offering parents generous cash incentives to have children. But policies like this rarely [...]

A country that does not publicly fund national defense won’t have much of it. A society that doesn’t support parents will have fewer children. [Stephanie H. Murray – The Atlantic, 25 April [...]

What role does population play in thinking about the problem of climate change and some of its solutions? This survey asked European demographers to state their views and asked them to rate their [...]

As well as the impact of population dynamics on development is understood, there is surprisingly little global awareness of the next great stage of the world historical demographic story, even [...]

In 2019, 4.17 million babies were born in the European Union (EU), continuing a decreasing trend that started after 2008 when 4.68 million children were born in the EU. [Eurostat, 23 March [...]

The rise of “work-focused” value sets and life courses means that achieving work-family balance isn’t just about employment norms adjusting to the growing complexity of individual aspirations; it [...]