TY - JOUR A1 - Kreyenfeld, Michaela A1 - Goldstein, Joshua A1 - Jasilioniene, Aiva A1 - Karaman Örsal, Deniz Dilan T1 - Fertility reactions to the "Great Recession" in Europe : Recent evidence from oder-specific data JF - Demographic Research N2 - Objective: This paper provides recent cross-national evidence of the impact of the great recession on fertility in Europe in the context of the recent decade. Methods: Using data from the Human Fertility Database (HFD), from Eurostat, and from the OECD database, we employ fixed-effects modeling to study how changes in unemployment rates have affected birth rates across Europe. Results: We find that countries that were hit hard by the recession show reduced fertility when compared with a continuation of recent trends, especially at younger ages. Conclusions: Our results indicate a strong relationship between economic conditions and fertility. However, there is variation by region, age, and parity suggesting the importance of life course and institutional factors. Y1 - 2013 UR - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-8511 SN - 1435-9871 VL - 29 SP - 85 EP - 104 PB - Max-Planck Institut für demografische Forschung CY - Rostock ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kreyenfeld, Michaela A1 - Goldstein, Joshua R. T1 - Has East Germany overtaken West Germany? : Recent trends in order-specific fertility JF - Population and Development Review N2 - Some 20 years after reunification, the contrast between East and West Germany offers a natural experiment for studying the degree of persistence of Communist-era family patterns, the effects of economic change, and fertility postponement. After reunification, period fertility rates plummeted in the former East Germany to record low levels. Since the mid-1990s, however, period fertility rates have been rising in East Germany, in contrast to the nearly constant rates seen in the West. By 2008, the TFR of East Germany had overtaken that of the West. We explore why fertility in East Germany is higher than in West Germany, despite unfavorable economic circumstances in the East. We address this and related questions by (a) presenting an account of the persisting East/West differences in attitudes toward and constraints on childbearing, (b) conducting an order-specific fertility analysis of recent fertility trends, and (c) projecting completed fertility for the recent East and west German cohorts. In addition to using the Human Fertility Database, perinatal statistics allow us to calculate a tempo-corrected TFR for East and West Germany. Y1 - 2011 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1728-4457.2011.00430.x SN - 1728-4457 VL - 37 IS - 3 SP - 453 EP - 472 PB - Wiley-Blackwell CY - Hoboken [u.a.] ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kreyenfeld, Michaela A1 - Jaschinski, Ina A1 - Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, Alexia A1 - Sobotka, Tomas A1 - Philipov, Dimiter A1 - Bernardi, Laura A1 - Goldstein, Joshua A1 - Zeman, Krystof T1 - Demographische Analyse der Fertilitätsentwicklung T2 - Zukunft mit Kindern: Fertilität und gesellschaftliche Entwicklung in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz Y1 - 2012 SP - 116 EP - 197 PB - Campus CY - Frankfurt a.M. ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Goldstein, Joshua A1 - Kreyenfeld, Michaela A1 - Rößgar, Felix T1 - Gibt es eine Trendumkehr in der Kinderzahl nach Geburtsjahrgängen in Deutschland? T2 - Berliner Demografie Forum - Working Paper Y1 - 2012 UR - https://www.berlinerdemografieforum.org/v_1410848592000/media/pdfs/120111_kinderzahl_kreyenfeld.pdf N1 - Free online access: https://www.berlinerdemografieforum.org/v_1410848592000/media/pdfs/120111_kinderzahl_kreyenfeld.pdf Freier Online Zugang: https://www.berlinerdemografieforum.org/v_1410848592000/media/pdfs/120111_kinderzahl_kreyenfeld.pdf IS - 4 PB - European School of Management and Technology - ESMT CY - Berlin ER -