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Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2026

Special issue: Delayed reproduction

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The Vienna Yearbook of Population Research is an open access journal that features contributions addressing population trends as well as a broad range of theoretical and methodological issues in population research. Besides Research articles and Review articles, the journal includes Data and Trends contributions, which analyse changes in population dynamics or present databases and data infrastructure. It also features Perspectives articles, which focus on ideas, concepts or theories, as well as invited Debates reflecting on selected questions and issues. Since 2008, the volumes have been devoted to selected themes following special calls for thematic issues.

The 2026 volume of the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research brings together a diverse set of contributions examining delayed reproduction as a defining feature of contemporary demographic change. The papers explore how later transitions to parenthood reshape reproductive trajectories, fertility intentions and birth outcomes for individuals and societies. Particular emphasis is placed on heterogeneities and inequalities by educational background, migration status, and place of residence. Using both quantitative and qualitative approaches and drawing on data from Europe, the Americas, and Asia, the issue highlights that delayed reproduction is a lasting trend with significant consequences for future fertility and societies more broadly.
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Educational differences and changing reproductive trajectories across three family generations of women in Peru

    Robin Cavagnoud

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2026, pp. , 2026/02/19

Special issue: Delayed reproduction

doi: 10.1553/p-k8p6-ckb7


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Abstract

This study examines how educational expansion shapes reproductive trajectories across three generations of Peruvian women. Using Peru’s Demographic and Health Surveys (1986–2022) and biographical interviews with 66 women from 22 family triads, we integrate quantitative and qualitative approaches to reveal complex education-fertility relationships. Five key patterns emerge: educational expansion with fertility postponement, early fertility persisting despite educational gains, increased reproductive agency, evolving responses to reproductive vulnerability and changing life course sequences. While statistical analysis confirms the existence of educational gradients in fertility, biographical data show how structural constraints, cultural models and family dynamics mediate educational effects. The multigenerational Ageven matrix methodology visualises temporal dimensions that are invisible in aggregate statistics. The findings challenge assumptions about education-fertility relationships by showing how demographic transitions operate through family lineages in which educational gains coexist with persistent early childbearing patterns shaped by violence, economic precarity and constrained choices.

Keywords: Reproductive trajectories; Educational expansion; Intergenerational analysis; Biographical methods; Fertility transition; Peru

Published Online: 2026/02/19

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