Remarriage in a pre-transitional Italian Community • Marco Breschi, University of Sassari ; Alessio Fornasin, University of Udine ; Matteo Manfredini, University of Parma ; Laura Rizzi, University of Udine ; Giovanna Gonano, University of Sassari

Childbearing ‘out there’ In ‘better Britain’: ‘How’ & ‘Why’ the fertility Of New Zealand Pakeha (=British-origin) colonists differed from That Of Their British Victorian Peers • Ian Pool, University of Waikato

Reproductive choices and reproductive constraints in Spain during the demographic transition: Familial, social and intergenerational Contexts • David Reher, Universidad Complutense de Madrid ; Alberto Sanz-Gimeno, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

From large, wealthy families to childless success? • Walter Scheidel, Stanford University ; Vegard Skirbekk, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) ; Hans-Peter Kohler, University of Pennsylvania

Population development of the Jewish population in Bohemia between the Years 1850 and 1939 • Jana Vobecka, Charles University in Prague