The unfolding story of the second demographic transition.

By R. Lesthaeghe. Population and Development Review, 2010

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• Economic and Social Implications of the Demographic Transition (2011, background): “…what has come to be known as the second demographic transition, thus suggesting that extremely low fertility may be here to stay (van de Kaa 1987; lesthaeghe 2010). in the long view, this process of ideational change affecting many aspects of contemporary life in the developed and in parts of…”
• Marriage and Family in East Asia: Continuity and Change (2015, background): “For example, roughly 20% of Japanese women born after 1970 report having lived in a cohabitating union (Iwasawa 2005, Raymo et al. 2009, Tsuya 2006), and in Taiwan roughly one-quarter of women aged 25–29 in 2004 have lived in a cohabiting union (Lesthaeghe 2010).”
• Fertility intentions: An approach based on the theory of planned behavior (2013, background): “Attitude to childlessness is a marker of the changes in societal norms and values that have accompanied the decrease in fertility rates (Lesthaeghe 2010).”
• THE CONSEQUENCES OF DIVORCE FOR ADULTS AND CHILDREN: AN UPDATE (2014, background): “Lesthaeghe (1983, 2010) was one of the first social scientists to describe the SDT.”
• Personality and marital surplus (2012, background): “Light and Ahn (2010) find that risk tolerance has a positive effect on the probability of divorce for both men and women in U.S. data, though the effect for women was consistently larger than the effect for men—a result they attribute to the greater income risk that divorce entails for women.”
• The fertility response to the Great Recession in Europe and the United States : Structural economic conditions and perceived economic uncertainty (2017, background): “However, the impact of economic depressions on fertility rates is normally rather small and of short duration because such socioeconomic factors are relatively short-term compared to secular demographic trends (Lee 2003; Lesthaeghe 2010).”