Cohort birth order, parity progression ratio and parity dstribution trends in developed countries • Tomas Frejka, Independent consultant ; Jean-Paul Sardon, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED)

A pooled time series analysis on the relation between fertility and key fertility-related demographic behaviour across space and time • Henriette Engelhardt, Austrian Academy of Sciences ; Alexia Fuernkranz-Prskawetz, Vienna Institute of Demography ; Marija Mamolo, Vienna Institute of Demography and Università di Roma "La Sapienza"

Patterns of low fertility in Italy • David I. Kertzer, Brown University ; Laura Bernardi, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research ; Giuseppe Gabrielli, Università di Bari ; Michael J. White, Brown University

Lowest-low Fertility and Home-ownership Regimes • Clara H. Mulder, University of Amsterdam ; Francesco C. Billari, Università Bocconi

Birth replacement ratios in Europe: 1960-2000 • José Antonio Ortega, Universidad de Salamanca ; Luis Alberto Del Rey Poveda, Universidad de Salamanca