Annette Baudisch & Henrik-Alexander Schubert (The Interdisciplinary Centre on Population Dynamics CPop, University of Southern Denmark) are calling on the joint brainpower of our demographic community to fill a knowledge gap. 

While concise textbooks of formal demography exist in general, the literature on the formal demography of fertility remains unsystematic and scattered. Therefore, they would like to collect all important formal demographic contributions on fertility, synthesise them into a comprehensive overview and publish the result as a literature review. 

Would you like to contribute to this project? You can contribute by suggesting important publications* (articles, books, preprints, conference papers et cetera) that fit the following definition of formal demography of fertility: a mathematical description of fertility that allows for substantial interpretations and that holds independent of any specific context or data. 

Your suggestions can be submitted via e-mail to: formal-demography@mpg.demogr.mpg.de

The project description can be accessed here.

For questions or comments, feel free to contact the coordinators via formal-fertility@demogr.mpg.de

*Note that literature contributions do not lead to co-authorship.