Low and Lower Fertility

Ronald R. Rindfuss is a Research Professor in the Department of Sociology, Adjunct Professor in the Geography Department, and a Fellow of the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, and a Senior Fellow at the East-West Center, Honolulu, HI. He is Past President of the Population Association of America and a former Director of the Carolina Population Center. His research interests include fertility, population and the environment, migration and family demography.

• 1. Introduction and overview. Minja Kim Choe and Ronald R Rindfuss.- 2. The Surprise that Ought Not To Be: Sustained Low Fertility and Slow Policy Response in China. Wang Feng (University of California – Irvine and Fudan University, Shanghai).- 3. Singapore’s Pro-Natalist Policies: To What Extent Have They Worked? Gavin Jones (Nationa University of Singapore).- 4. Policy Responses to a Rapidly Ageing Population: Hong Kong, SAR. Stuart Basten (University of Oxford).- 5. Below-Replacement Fertility in Japan: Patterns, Factors and Policy Implications. Noriko O. Tsuya (Keio University).- 6. Low Fertility, Population Ageing, and Policy Response in South Korea. So-Young Lee (KIHASA).- 7. Variation in U.S. Fertility: Lowest-low and the Not-so-low. S. Philip Morgan (University of North Carolina).- 8. The Evolution of Population and Family Policy in Australia. Peter McDonald (The Australian National University).- 9. Policy Responses to Low Fertility and Population Ageing: The Case of the Netherlands. Melinda C. Mills (University of Groningen, moving June 2014 to Oxford University).