Abstract
After completing the first demographic transition, developed countries experienced a fertility boom in the post-Second World War period. However, after the 1960s fertility rates fell dramatically and now, in 2007, stand below the replacement level of 2.1 births per woman in most of these countries. The entry of women into the workforce, economic development and changes in values and secularization are the causes of this demographic transformation.
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Adsera, A. (2018). Fertility in Developed Countries. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_2715
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