CPC Fellow Ron Rindfuss's research on Norwegian mothers appears in NY Times Magazine
Mar 5, 2007
To the dismay of pundits and politicians alike, women in industrialized
countries and elsewhere have been bearing fewer and fewer children.... According to Ronald Rindfuss, a sociologist, Norwegian women who live
in towns with more day-care slots available have more children and
become mothers earlier. The timing of births is important, because
lower fertility rates may owe something to the fact that many women
inadvertently delay becoming pregnant until it's no longer biologically
possible.
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Dr. Rindfuss collaborated with David Guilkey, Phil Morgan, Oystein Kravdal and Karen Guzzo on this study.
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