Studying the number of children people want and have
Overview
Fertility
There is huge variation in the number of children people (would like to) have over time / across the globe / within countries. I try to study the determinants of this variation, including individual factors like wealth and education, genetic factors, and social influences.
I should still write something more sensible here. For now:
In medicine:
- fertility - the ability to conceive children
- fecundity - the ability to produce an abundance of offspring
In demography:
- fertility - the number of live births of babies to a female
- fecundity - the physiological ability to have children