Thursday, May 1 / 3:30 PM - 5:20 PM   •   Grand Ballroom F

Session 61:
Emerging Global Patterns of Very Low Fertility

Chair: Elwood Carlson, Florida State University
Discussant: Tomas Frejka, Independent Consultant

  1. A Comparative Study of Recent Trends in Canadian and American Fertility, 1980-1999Alain P. Belanger, Statistics Canada ; Genevieve Ouellet, Statistics Canada

  2. Fertility Decline in the Former Communist Countries of the Soviet Union and Eastern EuropeTimothy Heleniak, World Bank Group

  3. Europe’s Population at a Turning Point – A New Policy ApproachWolfgang Lutz, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) ; Brian C. O'Neill, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) ; Sergei Scherbov, University of Groningen

  4. Fertility Studies in Context of Negative Natural Increase: An Analysis Based on the 2000 Census Data in Metropolitan Shanghai, ChinaYuan Ren, Fudan University

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