The Impact of Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme’s Coverage Policy on Modern Contraceptive Use
Despite decades of investment in family planning programs across sub-Saharan Africa, access to modern contraceptives remains constrained by cost, particularly for long-acting reversible contraceptives [...]
Infertility and Unrealized Ideal Family Size
Many people do not end their reproductive years with the family size they once imagined. This might be because their preference changed over time [...]
Beyond Lowest-Low Fertility: Why a Quarter-Century-Old Label No Longer Captures Today’s Demographic Reality
When fertility rates plummeted below 1.3 children per woman in parts of Europe during the 1990s, demographers coined a term to capture what seemed [...]
Self-Assessed Pregnancy Acceptability: A Novel Framework and Measure to Move Beyond Unintended Pregnancy
The fields of public health, demography, health services research, and clinical practice have long relied on the paradigm of pregnancy intentions and “unintended pregnancy” [...]
A Concentration of Reproduction to Later Ages? A Worldwide Assessment of Trends in Fertility Timing
"A Concentration of Reproduction to Later Ages? A Worldwide Assessment of Trends in Fertility Timing," a new paper in Population and Development Review, offers a [...]
Dimensions of Environmental Attitudes and General Fertility Ideals
In recent years, conversations about climate change and sustainability have expanded beyond recycling and renewable energy to include deeply personal choices like whether or [...]
Drivers of Population Change in Central and Eastern Europe
While shrinking population increasingly affects more and more countries around the world, there is a significant geographical concentration in this respect. Most states that [...]
The Limits of Gridded Data for Tracking Population Shifts: Evidence from China
High-resolution gridded population estimates are increasingly used in research and for applications that require fine spatial detail and frequent updates. Since the first globally [...]