@article{Hoem_13_22,
author = {Hoem, Jan M.},
title={{Why does Sweden have such high fertility?}},
journal = {Demographic Research},
volume = {13},
number = {22},
pages = {559--572},
doi = {10.4054/DemRes.2005.13.22},
year = {2005},
abstract = {By current European standards, Sweden has had a relatively high fertility in recent decades. During the 1980s and 1990s, the annual Total Fertility Rate (TFR) for Sweden undu­lated consid­erably around a level just under 1.8, which is a bit lower than the corresponding level in France and well above the level in West Germany. (In 2004 the Swedish TFR reached 1.76 on an upward trend.) The Swedish com­pleted Cohort Fertility Rate (CFR) was rather constant at 2 for the cohorts that produced children in the same period; for France it stayed around 2.1 while the West-German CFR was lower and de­clined regularly to around 1.6. In this presentation, I describe the back­ground for these develop­ments and explain the unique Swedish undulations.},
URL = {https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol13/22/},
eprint = {https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol13/22/13-22.pdf}
}