Our investigation aims to identify changes in attitudes toward gender roles, family life, marriage and childbearing in the last twenty-five years in Hungary, and hope to contribute to discussions about possible effects of value change on fertility behavior.
For instance, regarding the impact on the working-age population, change of fertility rates during the period 2015 2025 will only become visible after 2035.
Changes to fertility regulations are being considered by government.
Subjects receiving valerian showed a temporary increase in the percentage of normokinetic spermatozoids and a decrease in diskinetic forms, but these changes had no effect on fertility indices.
The study explores the link between data on education and data on fertility change, finding that lower fertility rates lead to higher rates of participation in education.
The Eurostat convergence scenario, however, is only one of several possible population-change scenarios based on assumptions on fertility, mortality, and migration.
On one hand, concomitant changes in fertility, female labor force participation, and social norms are often associated with increased independence for women.
FOLLOWING up on this week's Leader, The Economist has put together a videographic on recent changes in fertility rates and per capita output:Recent increases in fertility in some of the richest nations are an interesting phenomenon.
How well can demographers judge the future pace of changes in fertility rates based on women's desire and ability to practice family planning, when they must rely on past trends reflecting, to various degrees, compulsion by their governments?
"If you look at 1972, the results suggest that another similar legislative change this summer should also have an impact on fertility," Wilson said.
