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The Contribution of Assisted Reproduction to Completed Fertility: An Analysis of Danish Data

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  • Tomáŝ Sobotka
  • Martin A. Hansen
  • Tina Kold Jensen
  • Anette Tønnes Pedersen
  • Wolfgang Lutz
  • Niels Erik Skakkebæk

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Assisted reproduction has a minor but increasing influence on childbearing trends in advanced societies. In Denmark, the use of assisted reproduction technology (ART) has become particularly widespread. At the same time, Danish women born in the late 1950s and the 1960s experienced stabilization or even a slight increase in their mean number of children. Broad availability and widespread use of assisted reproduction may become important factors contributing to maintaining relatively high completed fertility among the younger cohorts of Danish women. To explore this idea, we analyze and project cohort trends in fertility rates among native Danish women born in 1960‐78 and examine the likely contribution of assisted reproduction to these trends. The projected proportion of children born after ART treatment shows a substantial increase from 2.1 percent among women born in 1965 to 4‐5 percent among women born in 1978, with an estimated net impact of ART (as compared with the hypothetical situation where no ART treatment was available) on the order of 3‐4 percent. When intrauterine inseminations are included, this implies that up to 7 percent of children of those native Danish women born in 1975 and later will likely be conceived by infertility treatment.

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  • Tomáŝ Sobotka & Martin A. Hansen & Tina Kold Jensen & Anette Tønnes Pedersen & Wolfgang Lutz & Niels Erik Skakkebæk, 2008. "The Contribution of Assisted Reproduction to Completed Fertility: An Analysis of Danish Data," Population and Development Review, The Population Council, Inc., vol. 34(1), pages 79-101, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:popdev:v:34:y:2008:i:1:p:79-101
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2008.00206.x
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    1. John Bongaarts, 2008. "What can fertility indicators tell us about pronatalist policy options?," Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, vol. 6(1), pages 39-55.
    2. Katherine Tierney, 2022. "The Future of Assisted Reproductive Technology Live Births in the United States," Population Research and Policy Review, Springer;Southern Demographic Association (SDA), vol. 41(5), pages 2289-2309, October.
    3. Ester Lazzari & Michaela Potančoková & Tomáš Sobotka & Edith Gray & Georgina M. Chambers, 2023. "Projecting the Contribution of Assisted Reproductive Technology to Completed Cohort Fertility," Population Research and Policy Review, Springer;Southern Demographic Association (SDA), vol. 42(1), pages 1-22, February.
    4. Olga G. Isupova, 2020. "Delegation of parenthood and language of reproduction: experts and patients on the birth of ART-children," Population and Economics, ARPHA Platform, vol. 4(4), pages 43-56, December.
    5. Katherine M. Johnson & Arthur L. Greil & Karina M. Shreffler & Julia McQuillan, 2018. "Fertility and Infertility: Toward an Integrative Research Agenda," Population Research and Policy Review, Springer;Southern Demographic Association (SDA), vol. 37(5), pages 641-666, October.

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