Raporti shokues: Rënie drastike e lindshmërisë kudo në botë! (Shocking report: Drastically declining fertility anywhere in the world!) Bordo (Albania). 2024
Professor Melinda Mills quoted in Albanian news about falling birth rates.

England and Wales' baby bust laid bare: Shock analysis reveals NONE of the 330 authorities has a fertility rate above 'replacement' level.. so how many children does the average woman have in YOUR area? The Mail Online. 2024
Professor Melinda Mills quoted in this article about global declining birth rates.

CPC/CG Webinar - Revisiting the Proximate Determinants of Fertility: The Role of Assisted Reproductive Technologies | Dr Nitzan Peri-Rotem Youtube. 2023
This CPC-CG Webinar took place on Thursday 15th June 2023. Nitzan Peri-Rotem, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Exeter, gave a talk entitled "Revising the Proximate Determinants of Fertility: The Role of Assisted Reproductive Technologies". In 1956, Kingsley Davis and Judith Blake published their pioneering study, which presented "an analytical framework for the comparative sociology of fertility". This framework introduced a set of intermediate fertility variables, which later became known as the proximate determinants of fertility. These include behavioural and biological factors (sexual exposure, contraceptive use, induced abortion, sterility, etc.), through which socioeconomic, cultural and environmental variables can affect fertility. Since it was first published, the framework has been revised several times along with developments in demographic research, and to adjust for changes in sexual and reproductive practices, with the most recent update published by John Bongaarts in 2015. However, the proximate determinants model has yet to incorporate the usage of assisted reproductive technologies (ART), which account for nearly 8% of all children born in some countries. This study offers both theoretical and empirical applications for the inclusion of ART within the proximate determinants of fertility. Given the global trends in the supply and demand for fertility treatment, accounting for assisted reproductive technologies in the proximate determinants framework will contribute to a better understanding of fertility change and its causes across different populations.

Video by Brienna Perelli-Harris about the triple burden of low fertility, high mortality and high emigration in Ukraine. Twitter. 2023
Relates to research by Perelli-Harris B, Hilevych Y, (2023) Depopulation in Ukraine: Low fertility, high mortality and emigration, CPC Policy Briefing 70

New study on human fertility - Genome-wide analysis identifies genetic effects on reproductive success and ongoing natural selection at the FADS locus Youtube. 2023
This video outlines research by Professor Melinda Mills - Mathieson I, Day F, Barban N, Mills M et al (2023) Genome-wide analysis identifies genetic effects on reproductive success and ongoing natural selection at the FADS locus, Nature Human Behaviour

Scientists 'identify genetic variants linked to human fertility' Shropshire Star. 2023
News article about research by Professor Melinda Mills, identifying genetic variants that influence human fertility. See the study, Mathieson I et al, (2023) Genome-wide analysis identifies genetic effects on reproductive success and ongoing natural selection at the FADS locus, Nature Human Behaviour.

Scientists 'identify genetic variants linked to human fertility' Ireland Live. 2023
News article about research by Professor Melinda Mills, identifying genetic variants that influence human fertility. See the study, Mathieson I et al, (2023) Genome-wide analysis identifies genetic effects on reproductive success and ongoing natural selection at the FADS locus, Nature Human Behaviour.

Scientists 'identify genetic variants linked to human fertility' The Independent. 2023
News article about research by Professor Melinda Mills, identifying genetic variants that influence human fertility. See the study, Mathieson I et al, (2023) Genome-wide analysis identifies genetic effects on reproductive success and ongoing natural selection at the FADS locus, Nature HUman Behaviour.

What the Faroe Islands could teach Europe about fertility The Telegraph. 2022
News article in The Telegraph about birth rates in the Faroe Islands quotes Dr Joanne Ellison and her research on UK birth rates.

CPC/CG Webinar - The low fertility trap: a search for empirical evidence in the case of Italy | Professor Maria Rita Testa Youtube. 2022
Maria Rita Testa of Luiss Guido Carli University gave a talk, entitled: "The low fertility trap: a search for empirical evidence in the case of Italy." In Italy very low fertility coupled with very high life expectancy will have a tremendous impact on the labour market, pension system, and health care provision in the coming decades. Knowing future population trend is key for the Italian society to prepare for the changes. The uncertainty on the future trends of births and deaths has increased after COVID-19 and has made demographic projections more challenging. The aim of this research is to single out the future prospects of Italy's population by comparing projections stemming from different organizations and their sensitiveness to the underlying assumptions on fertility, mortality and migration. A particular emphasis will be given to the assessment of a feasibility of the low fertility trap hypothesis. While all organizations agree that the Italian population will continue to decline in the future, the speed and extent of this decline vary significantly across projections. The trap assumption seems not very realistic in the short and medium term.

Baby bust: Can policymakers boost dwindling world fertility rates? The Financial Times. 2022
Dr Bernice Kuang is quoted in The Financial Times regarding her research into falling birth rates.

Partnership, fertility, and employment trajectories of immigrants in the UK: A sequence analysis Youtube. 2022
Dr Júlia Mikolai from The University of St Andrews presents 'Partnership, fertility, and employment trajectories of immigrants in the UK: A three-channel sequence analysis' at the MigrantLife Symposium on 15 March 2022.

CPC Webinar: Home-based work and fertility based on UK Understanding Society data | Anna Matysiak Youtube. 2022
his CPC webinar was held on Thursday 24 February. Anna Matysiak Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the University of Warsaw, gave a talk entitled, Home-based work and fertility based on UK Understanding Society data. We examine timely yet severely under-researched interplay between home-based work (HBW) and childbearing. Namely, we study whether and under which conditions women are more likely to have a child when they work from home. Our study is situated in a liberal labour market setting - the UK. With the use of UKHLS 2009-2019 longitudinal data, we test circumstances in which HBW positively or negatively relates to fertility. We use random-effect logistic regression and consider a set of potential moderators of the studied relationship, including socioeconomic status, commuting time, work hours, and other job-related factors. Our preliminary results prove the complex association between HBW and childbearing: regular use of HBW is positively related to fertility, but only among women who do not work long, feel confident about their jobs or who otherwise would have to commute long. If these conditions are not satisfied, the relationship turns negative.

CPC Webinar: Employment (uncertainty), fertility trends in Italy: tale of the last decades - Giammarco Alderotti Youtube. 2022
This CPC webinar was held on Thursday 27 January at 13:00-14:00. Giammarco Alderotti from The University of Florence gave a talk entitled, "Employment (uncertainty) and fertility trends in Italy: a tale of the last decades". Labour market instability has been shown to come with consequences for fertility decisions. Especially in the southern European context insecure employment situations hamper the transition to parenthood. Most research so far has focused on first childbirth, ignoring potential recuperation effects and thus the more encompassing view on cohort fertility. We exploited recent data to extend on this point and analyse the consequences of employment instability on (quasi-)completed fertility for men and women in Italy. An additional focus is made on the changing relationship between female employment and fertility over the last decades, also taking into consideration the strong regional heterogeneity that characterises the country.

CPC Webinar: 'Modelling the socio-economic determinants of fertility' | Maarten Bijlsma Youtube. 2021
This CPC webinar was on Friday 16 July. Maarten Bijlsma, University of Groningen / MPIDR, gave a talk entitled 'Modelling the socio-economic determinants of fertility: a mediation analysis using the parametric g-formula'. Theories predict that the timing of childbearing and number of children born are determined by multiple socio-economic factors. Despite this, many methods cannot investigate the interrelationships between these determinants, including the direct and indirect influence that they have on fertility over the life course. Here we use the parametric g-formula to examine the interdependent influences of time-varying socio-economic processes-education, employment status and partnership status-on fertility. To demonstrate this approach, we study a cohort of women who were born in the UK in 1970. Our results show that socio-economic processes play an important role in determining fertility, not only directly but also indirectly. We show that increasing attendance in higher education has a largely direct effect on early childbearing up to age 25 years, resulting in a substantial increase in childlessness. However, childbearing at later ages is dominated by an indirect effect of education on fertility, via partnership status and employment status, that is twice as large as the direct effect. We also use the g-formula to ex-amine bias due to unobserved heterogeneity, and we demonstrate that our results appear to be robust. We conclude that the method provides a valuable tool for mediation analysis in studies of interdependent life course processes.

Coronavirus: UK fertility rate falls to lowest level on record Yahoo News. 2021
Article on Yahoo News about declining fertility rates in the UK exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Quotes CPC research led by Professor Ann Berrington ESRC Centre for Population Change Working Paper 95 'Recent trends in UK fertility and potential impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic'

Covid 'baby bust' fears as fertility rate falls to record low The Telegraph. 2021
Article in the Telegraph newspaper about declining fertility rates in the UK exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Quotes CPC research led by Professor Ann Berrington ESRC Centre for Population Change Working Paper 95 'Recent trends in UK fertility and potential impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic'

CPC Webinar: 'Estimating Total Fertility from the Shape of the Age Pyramid' | Carl Schmertmann Youtube. 2020
CPC Webinar: Estimating Total Fertility from the Shape of the Age Pyramid: Bayesian models and applications given by Carl Schmertmann, Professor of Economics at Florida State University and former Editor of Demographic Research, on Friday 23 October at 14:00 BST. When vital event registration is missing or inadequate, it is possible to approximate a population's total fertility (TFR) from its age-sex distribution. For example, if child mortality is low then TFR is often close to seven times the child/woman ratio (CWR), the number of 0-4 year olds per 15-49-year-old woman. We analyse the formal relationship between CWR and TFR to identify sources of uncertainty in indirect estimates. We construct a Bayesian model for the statistical distribution of TFR conditional on the population's age-sex structure, in which unknown demographic quantities in the standard approximation are parameters with prior distributions. We apply the model to produce first-ever estimates of TFR for several hundred indigenous populations in Brazil.

Is global fertility really plummeting? The Herald (Zimbabwe). 2020
Quotes research by Professor Brienna Perelli-Harris on global fertility.

Is global fertility really plummeting? Delano. 2020
Brienna Perelli-Harris and Jason Hilton respond to the much publicised IHME study in the Lancet about global population levels.

Global fertility rates plummeting? Don't worry just yet ThePrint India. 2020
Brienna Perelli-Harris and Jason Hilton respond to the much publicised IHME study in the Lancet about global population levels.

Is global fertility really plummeting? How population forecasts are made The Eastern Mirror. 2020
Article in the Eastern Mirror, Brienna Perelli-Harris and Jason Hilton respond to the much publicised IHME study in the Lancet about global population levels.

Is global fertility really plummeting? How population forecasts are made The Africa News. 2020
Article in the Africa News linking to the article in the Conversation: Is global fertility really plummeting? How population forecasts are made.

Is global fertility really plummeting? How population forecasts are made Japan Herald. 2020
Article in the Japan Herald linking to the article in the Conversation: Is global fertility really plummeting? How population forecasts are made.

Is global fertility really plummeting? How population forecasts are made MIL-OSI . 2020
Article on New Zealand site MIL-OSI linking to the article in the Conversation: Is global fertility really plummeting? How population forecasts are made.

Is global fertility really plummeting? How population forecasts are made Yahoo News. 2020
Article on Yahoo News linking to the article in the Conversation: Is global fertility really plummeting? How population forecasts are made.

Is global fertility really plummeting? How population forecasts are made Medical Express. 2020
Article on Medical Express linking to the article in the Conversation: Is global fertility really plummeting? How population forecasts are made.

Is global fertility really plummeting? How population forecasts are made The Conversation. 2020
Professor Brienna Perelli-Harris and Dr Jason Hilton news article in the Conversation responding to the IHME study in the Lancet about global population levels.

Is global fertility really plummeting? PaZimbabwe. 2020
Article about research by Brienna Perelli-Harris into global fertility

CPC Seminar: 'Better Health, Higher Fertility?' | Giammarco Alderotti Youtube. 2020
CPC Seminar given by Giammarco Alderotti from the University of Florence on 30th April 2020.Research on the determinants of migrants' fertility has always focused on socio-economic factors (education, employment, integration), producing incomplete and sometimes contradictory evidence. Alongside, the health status of migrants is at the top of many researchers' agenda, since it is a good proxy of the integration process, and because of its implications on national healthcare systems. Despite health status and fertility are among the most important aspects of migrants' lives in the destination country, the extent to which the first influence the second has hardly ever been considered. In this work, we posit that individual health status may in fact play a role in shaping fertility (intentions) among migrant subpopulations, with different implications by gender, and test our assumption on Italian data.

St Andrews-led team given £708,000 grant to research fertility fluctuations The Courier. 2019

Measuring Male Fertility Rates by Making Use of Facebook Data Population Europe website. 2018
Francesco Rampazzo's research featured in a Population Europe Pop Digest 'Measuring Male Fertility Rates by Making Use of Facebook Data'.

Tiffany Jenkins: Fertility is down across the world The Scotsman. 2015
Article on The Scotsman, "Tiffany Jenkins: Fertility is down across the world".

Recession Hits Scots Fertility Rate Scotland on Sunday. 2011
Article in Scotland on Sunday, "Recession Hits Scots Fertility Rate"

Declining fertility
Interviewed live on "Newsdrive" on BBC Television about declining fertility