Expert Group Meeting on Recent and Future Trends in Fertility
New York, 2-4 December 2009

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INFORMATION FOR PARTICIPANTS

DOCUMENTS

• Objectives of the Meeting
• Provisional Organization of Work
• List of Participants
• List of Papers
• List of Presentations
• Editorial Guidelines
  

CONTRIBUTED PAPERS

• European fertility trends and prospects
  (UN/POP/EGM-FERT/2009/01) - Tomáš Sobotka
• Childbearing behaviour in a life-course perspective
  (UN/POP/EGM-FERT/2009/02) - Francesco Billari
• Effects of family policies on childbearing behaviour in developed countries
  (UN/POP/EGM-FERT/2009/03) - Gerda Neyer
• Why has fertility recently increased in many developed countries?
  (UN/POP/EGM-FERT/2009/04) - Hans-Peter Kohler
• Recent fertility trends, policy responses and fertility prospects in low fertility countries of East and Southeast Asia
  (UN/POP/EGM-FERT/2009/05) - Gavin Jones
• Fertility prospects in China
  (UN/POP/EGM-FERT/2009/06) - Gu Baochang and Yong Cai
• Fertility prospects in Japan: trends, recent rise, and life course developments
  (UN/POP/EGM-FERT/2009/07) - Ryuichi Kaneko
• Fertility prospects in Israel: Ever below replacement level?
  (UN/POP/EGM-FERT/2009/08) - Sergio DellaPergola
• Fertility prospects in the Arab region
  (UN/POP/EGM-FERT/2009/09) - John Casterline
• Diversity of childbearing behaviour within population in the context of below replacement fertility in Brazil
  (UN/POP/EGM-FERT/2009/10) - Suzana Cavenaghi
• Latin American fertility decline: Differences and commonalities
  (UN/POP/EGM-FERT/2009/11) - Tim Miller
• Future fertility prospects for India
  (UN/POP/EGM-FERT/2009/12) - Carl Haub
• Fertility prospects in Pakistan
  (UN/POP/EGM-FERT/2009/13) - Zeba A. Sathar
• Fertility prospects in South-Eastern Asia
  (UN/POP/EGM-FERT/2009/14) - Terence Hull
• Proximate determinants of fertility in sub-Saharan Africa and their possible use in fertility projection
  (UN/POP/EGM-FERT/2009/15) - Jean-Pierre Guengant
• Probabilistic projections of the total fertility rate for all countries for the 2010 World Population Prospects (UN/POP/EGM-FERT/2009/16) - Adrian Raftery and others

PRESENTATIONS

• European fertility trends and prospects - Tomáš Sobotka
• Effects of family policies on childbearing behaviour in developed countries - Gerda Neyer
• Advances in development reverse fertility declines - Hans-Peter Kohler
• Recent fertility trends, policy responses and fertility prospects in low fertility countries of East and
  Southeast Asia - Gavin W. Jones
• Fertility prospects in China - Gu Baochang
• Fertility prospects in Japan - Ryuichi Kaneko
• Fertility prospects in Israel: Ever below replacement level? - Sergio DellaPergola
• Fertility transition in Egypt and Morocco - Laila El-Zeini
• Fertility prospects in the Arab region - John B. Casterline
• Diversity of childbearing behaviour within population in the context of below replacement fertility in Brazil - Suzana Cavenaghi
• Latin American fertility decline: Differences and commonalities - Tim Miller
• Recent trends in Latin American fertility - Luis Rosero-Bixby
• Fertility in India trends and prospects - Carl Haub
• Prospects of fertility decline in Pakistan - Zeba A. Sathar
• Fertility prospects in South-Eastern Asia - Terence H. Hull
• Stopping, spacing and postponing: The future of the African fertility decline - Tom A Moultrie
• Proximate determinants of fertility in sub-Saharan Africa and their possible use in fertility projection - Jean-Pierre Guengant
• Projecting fertility: A history - Hania Zlotnik
• Probabilistic projections of the total fertility rate - Leontine Alkema
• Comparison between Bayesian approach and World Population Prospects 2008 projections of total fertility - Patrick Gerland
  
• A Stochastic version of the World Population Prospects - based on Bayesian projections of total fertility and life expectancy - Gerhard K. Heilig