Robert Schoen received a Ph.D. degree in Demography from the University of California Berkeley in 1972. He has been a Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Johns Hopkins University, and Penn State University, where he was the Hoffman Professor of Family Sociology and Demography. In 2004, he received the Mindel Sheps Award in Mathematical Demography / Demographic Methods from the Population Association of America.

Provides a cutting edge analyses of the changing fertility dynamics

Includes theory, context, and determinants of contemporary human reproduction

Describes new determinants such as religion and multi-partner fertility

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I: Contemporary Perspectives on Fertility.- Chapter 2. Social capital, gender competition, and the resurgence of childlessness.- Chapter 3. Uncertainty and narratives of the future: A theoretical framework for contemporary fertility.- Chapter 4. Social contagion effects in fertility: Theory and analytical strategy.- Chapter 5. The context of interracial childbearing in the United States.- Part II: Fertility Intentions.- Chapter 6. Do reproductive attitudes and knowledge explain race-ethnic-nativity differences in unintended fertility?.- Chapter 7. Regional fertility differences in India.- Part III: The Demography of Multipartner Fertility.- Chapter 8. Multi-partner fertility in Europe and the United States.- Chapter 9. Welfare regimes and fertility in second unions.- Chapter 10.- Years spent as mothers of young children: The role of completed fertility, birth spacing, and multiple partner fertility.- Chapter 11.- Where's daddy? Challenges inthe measurement of men's fertility.- Part IV: Issues of Measurement.- Chapter 12. Measuring the prevalence of multipartner fertility independent of fertility level. Chapter 13. Cross-sectional average length of life by parity: Illustration of U.S. cohorts of reproductive age in 2015.