Is lowest-low fertility in Europe explained by the postponement of childbearing?

By Tomás Sobotka. 2004

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The End of “Lowest‐Low” Fertility? (2009, background): “Bongaarts (2001 and 2002) and Sobotka (2004a) have suggested that lowest-low fertility is a transient phenomenon.”
Uncertainties in Female Employment Careers and the Postponement of Parenthood in Germany (2010, background): “Economic uncertainty is also regarded as being among the main driving forces behind the postponement of childbearing and the unprecedented decline in period fertility rates that occurred all over Eastern Europe after the demise of the communist systems (Eberstadt, 1994; Witte and Wagner, 1995; Khark”
Fertility intentions: An approach based on the theory of planned behavior (2013, background): “As a result of declining fertility with age, individuals and couples who intend to have a certain number of children early in their relationship may fail to realize their intentions (Sobotka 2004).”
Why do people postpone parenthood? Reasons and social policy incentives. (2011, background): “The result has been a massive delay in childbearing in Europe (Kohler et al ., 2002; Sobotka, 2004a, b) and in certain groups (highly educated) in the USA and elsewhere (Rindfuss et al ., 1988; Heck et al ., 1997).”
Low fertility in Europe: causes implications and policy options. (2006, background): “…late 1990s, and these levels quite are modest in a historical 20th-century perspective or when compared to the childlessness observed in some other countries, as for instance Germany, where more than quarter of the women in the 1965 cohort are estimated to have remained childless (Sobotka 2004b).”