The first demographic transition changed the face of the western world as thoroughly as did the Industrial Revolution. As couples began to have fewer children,

These essays examine the global impact of infertility as a major reproductive health issue, one that has profoundly affected the lives of countless women and me

This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This open access book provides an overview of childlessness throughout Europe. It offers a collect

In this influential work, Richard A. Easterlin shows how the size of a generation—the number of persons born in a particular year—directly and indirectly af

This book offers an original interpretation of the history of falling fertilities in Britain between 1860 and 1940. It integrates the approaches of the social s