Populations in developed countries are ageing. However, the impact of senior citizens'
consumption on global carbon mitigation is poorly understood. Here we find that senior …

How persistent and universal has the two child family ideal been in Europe during the last
three decades? We analyze responses of women of reproductive age from 168 surveys …

This chapter reviews cross-cultural research from the past 15 years on the way religiosity
and religion relate to various aspects of morality—all major domains that people, universally …

The least-skilled workforce in the United States is disproportionally employed in the
provision of time-intensive services that can be thought of as market substitutes for home …

The role of religion in explaining fertility differences is often overlooked in demographic
studies, particularly in Western Europe, where there has been a substantial decline in …

European demographers rarely study religion as a determinant of contemporary
demographic behaviour. One reason could be the secularisation observed in European …

Since the transition to democracy in Spain in 1975, both total fertility and rates of church
attendance of Catholics have dropped dramatically. In this study the 1985 and 1999 Spanish …

Despite the centrality of religion and fertility to life in rural Africa, the relationship between the
two remains poorly understood. The study presented here uses unique integrated individual …

Using nineteen panels of the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY-79), we
construct life-lines characterizing women's childless expectations and fertility behavior. One …

Many aspects of religious rituals suggest they provide adaptive benefits. Studies across
societies consistently find that investments in ritual behaviour return high levels of …