Abstract: Recent literature proposes that poverty could lead women to remain childless, thus attenuating or reverting higher fertility typically observed among of lower schooling level. We explore the role health in this approach: does have a distinctive detrimental effect on levels? To end, we compute gap definite childlessness rate by self-reported disability status across levels. Due scarcit...

In many post?socialist countries, there is a strong social ideal that, in order to live fulfilled life, men and women should have children; thus “childfree” lifestyles are much less popular than North?Western Europe. this article, we explore factors leading childlessness among who were mostly socialized under state?socialist conditions the subsequent transition period by analysing 30 in?depth i...