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We look forward to our second in-person session of\u00a0the Family, Fertility, and Human Development Initiative<\/em>. This builds on our inaugural meeting in Budapest<\/a> and our monthly Zoom workshops<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Understanding fertility and its decline in most countries is of great policy and scholarly interest. While many explanations have been proposed, they remain fragmented across disciplines and have not been systematically integrated. Our initiative seeks to address this gap. The meeting brings together diverse strands of research to develop a unified and empirically grounded understanding of the forces shaping fertility today. Our focus is on:<\/p>\n

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  1. The impacts of natality and childcare policies on fertility and child outcomes. This entails both measurement and models and their synthesis.<\/li>\n
  2. Dynamics of fertility investigating the timing and spacing of births as they change over cohorts, including the growth of childlessness. We have had some seminars on this, but the question remains, how much of the decline in fertility, and the alleged reversal of fertility-income relationships is due to the changes in timing (tempo)?<\/li>\n
  3. How changes in patterns of marriage and cohabitation and extension of longevity and access to new fertility technology have affected total fertility and completed fertility and timing issues.<\/li>\n
  4. Biological factors involving various insults, such as microplastics, exposure to hormones through diets, obesity, and the like. IVF and its role in permitting delay at the cost of reduced fecundity will also be discussed.<\/li>\n
  5. The change in social norms and conventions for men and women.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    We look forward to our second in-person session of\u00a0the Family, Fertility, and Human Development Initiative. This builds on our inaugural meeting in Budapest and our monthly Zoom workshops. Understanding fertility and its decline in most countries is of great policy and scholarly interest. While many explanations have been proposed, they remain fragmented across disciplines and have not been systematically integrated. Our initiative seeks to address this gap. The meeting brings together diverse strands of research to develop a unified and empirically grounded understanding of the forces shaping fertility today. Our focus is on: The impacts of natality and childcare policies on fertility and child outcomes. This entails both measurement and models and their synthesis. Dynamics of fertility investigating the timing and spacing of births as they change over cohorts, including the growth of childlessness. We have had some seminars on this, but the question remains, how much of the decline in fertility, and the alleged reversal of fertility-income relationships is due to the changes in timing (tempo)? How changes in patterns of marriage and cohabitation and extension of longevity and access to new fertility technology have affected total fertility and completed fertility and timing issues. Biological factors involving various insults, such as microplastics, exposure to hormones through diets, obesity, and the like. IVF and its role in permitting delay at the cost of reduced fecundity will also be discussed. 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