{"id":539,"date":"2026-05-17T09:38:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T09:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/population\/?page_id=539"},"modified":"2026-05-17T10:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T10:31:12","slug":"fertility-and-family","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/population\/fertility-and-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Fertility and Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"woocommerce\">\n    \n    <section class=\"u-clearfix u-palette-4-base u-section-2\" id=\"block-2\">\n      <div class=\"u-clearfix u-sheet u-valign-middle u-sheet-1\">\n        <h2 class=\"u-text u-text-default u-text-1\"> Fertility and Family<span style=\"font-weight: 700;\"><\/span>\n        <\/h2>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n    <section class=\"u-clearfix u-palette-4-base u-section-3\" id=\"block-1\">\n      <div class=\"u-clearfix u-sheet u-valign-top-lg u-valign-top-sm u-sheet-1\">\n        <p class=\"u-text u-text-1\"> Research on fertility and family at the TAU Center for Population Science focuses on Israel\u2019s unique fertility patterns and their social and economic implications. Israel is a \u201cdemographic anomaly,\u201d for several decades exhibiting the highest fertility rates among OECD countries, even as many Western societies experienced continuous fertility decline. The field examines how religiosity, family structure, gender, welfare policy, and cultural norms shape reproductive behavior and family life in Israel. <\/p>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"u-expanded-width-xs u-image u-image-default u-preserve-proportions u-image-1\" src=\"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/population\/files\/2026\/03\/fertility.png\" alt=\"\" data-image-width=\"480\" data-image-height=\"480\">\n        <p class=\"u-text u-text-2\"> At the academic level, researchers seek to understand why fertility decline in Israel has stalled in contrast to many Western countries, and how religiosity became one of the strongest predictors of demographic behavior. Research also addresses changes in family composition and their implications for intergenerational transfers, housing demand, access to contraception and abortion, education systems, and welfare services. The field combines demography, sociology, economics, psychology, and public policy in order to understand how decisions are made at the individual and household level, determining broader population-level trends.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n    \n    \n    \n  \n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fertility and Family Research on fertility and family at the TAU Center for Population Science focuses on Israel\u2019s unique fertility patterns and their social and economic implications. Israel is a \u201cdemographic anomaly,\u201d for several decades exhibiting the highest fertility rates among OECD countries, even as many Western societies experienced continuous fertility decline. The field examines &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/population\/fertility-and-family\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fertility and Family&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-539","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/population\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/population\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/population\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/population\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/population\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/population\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/population\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/539\/revisions\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/population\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}