Thursday, September 2 / 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM   •   Room HS33

Session 22:
Fertility intentions and fertility realization

Chair: Elizabeth Thomson, Stockholm University and University of Wisconsin at Madison

  1. Intentions, uncertainty, and ambivalence in fertility decisionsLaura Bernardi, Université de Lausanne ; Monika Mynarska, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University ; Clémentine Rossier, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED)

  2. An analysis of Italian couples’ fertility decision-making process: second birth intentions and realizationsLaura Cavalli, Università Cattolica, Milan ; Maria Rita Testa, Vienna Institute of Demography ; Alessandro Rosina, Università Cattolica, Milan

  3. Realization, Postponement and Abandonment Factors of realizing child-bearing intentions in four European countriesBalázs Kapitány, Demographic Research Institute ; Zsolt Spéder, Demografic Research Institute Budapest

  4. Have fertility intentions become harder to realize over the last thirty years? A prospective study of Norwegian women using three surveys linked with register dataTorkild Hovde Lyngstad, University of Oslo ; Turid Noack, Statistics Norway ; Kenneth Aarskaug Wiik, Statistics Norway

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