A content analysis of chat utterances generated by in vitro fertilization (IVF) patients and healthcare professionals revealed that most chat is about the treatment itself and not about childlessness; 56% discloses psychological aspects, 27% physical aspects, and 17% social aspects of the treatment; and that accounts of both external and internal coping behaviors could be identified.

We document new facts on the distribution of male fertility and its relationship with men's labor market outcomes. Using Norwegian registry data all births since 1967, we show that rates childlessness in recent cohorts are 72% among lowest five percent earners but only 11% highest earners, this gap widened by almost 20 percentage points over last thirty cohort years. There has been a compressio...

This paper starts by reviewing existing projections of childlessness among British men and women. Low current fertility implies high eventual childlessness unless the postponement of parenthood is taken into account. Such re-timing of first births appears to be occurring differentially across social groups. Exploiting the disaggregated evidence of two British cohort studies, the 1958 National C...

A content analysis of chat utterances generated by in vitro fertilization (IVF) patients and healthcare professionals revealed that most chat is about the treatment itself and not about childlessness; 56% discloses psychological aspects, 27% physical aspects, and 17% social aspects of the treatment; and that accounts of both external and internal coping behaviors could be identified.

An individual's happiness is closely related to their family life as the institution in which they spend most of life. Capitalizing on data from 2018 China Family Panel Studies, this study investigates relationship between economic standing (measured by household income and homeownership) processes marital status childlessness), well children's characteristics gender composition children adult ...