Patterns in the delay and recovery of fertility in Europe

Jesús J. Sánchez-Barricarte () and Remo Fernández-Carro
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Jesús J. Sánchez-Barricarte: Carlos III University of Madrid (Spain)
Remo Fernández-Carro: Carlos III University of Madrid (Spain)

European Journal of Population, 2007, vol. 23, issue 2, No 2, 145-170

Abstract: Abstract Using the information provided by the Council of Europe (2002), we analyse the final number of children over several cohorts in 20 European countries. We distinguish between children born before and after the age of 30. One obvious conclusion emerging from the analysis of the data is that the most recent cohorts have fewer children before the age of 30, and more after this age. However, this process of “ageing fertility” is not occurring in the same way across all European countries. Four clear patterns of reproduction can be discerned: Western, Central, Southern and Eastern. While in Western European countries, the fertility “lost” before the age of 30 is recovered afterwards, in the other areas this is not the case. Using the techniques of factor analysis, taking various socio-economic variables, we attempt to show the value of this distinction to study the differences in the strategies of delay and recovery of fertility in the different groups of countries.

Keywords: Fertility; Europe; Fertility delay; Fertility recovery; Welfare state; fécondité; Europe; retard du calendrier de la fécondité; état providence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1007/s10680-006-9114-2

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