[Books] [Papers] [Reviews, etc.]
Rodgers, Joseph L. and Hans-Peter Kohler (Eds.) (2002). The Biodemography of human reproduction and fertility. Boston: Kluwer Academic Press. (more info)
Kohler, Hans-Peter (2001). Fertility and Social Interaction: An Economic Perspective, Oxford University Press. (more info)
Kohler, Hans-Peter (1992). Foundations of the Evaluation of Options and Warrants. Wiesbaden: Gabler Verlag. [In German]
[Books] [Papers] [Reviews, etc.]
Rodgers, Joseph L., Hans-Peter Kohler, Matt McGue, Jere R. Behrman, Inge Petersen, Paul Bingley and Kaare Christensen (forthcoming). "Education and Cognitive Ability as Direct, Mediated, or Spurious Influences on Female Age at First Birth: Behavioral Genetic Models Fit to Danish Twin Data." American Journal of Sociology, forthcoming. (abstract)
Helleringer, Stéphane and Hans-Peter Kohler (forthcoming). "Response to Brewer et al. regarding `Sexual Network Structure and the Spread of HIV in Africa: Evidence from Likoma Island, Malawi'." AIDS, forthcoming.
Helleringer, Stéphane and Hans-Peter Kohler (2007). "Characteristics of external/bridge relationships by partner type and location where sexual relationship took place." AIDS, 21(18):2560--2561.
Helleringer, Stéphane and Hans-Peter Kohler (2007). "Sexual Network Structure and the Spread of HIV in Africa: Evidence from Likoma Island, Malawi." AIDS, 21(17):2323--2332. (abstract, online access)
Billari, Francesco C., Hans-Peter Kohler, Gunnar Andersson and Hans Lundström (2006). "Approaching the Limit: Long-Term Trends in Late and Very Late Fertility." Population and Development Review 33(1):149--170. (abstract, online access)
Kohler, Hans-Peter, Jere R. Behrman and Susan C. Watkins (2006). "Social Networks, HIV/AIDS and Risk Perceptions." Demography 44(1), 1-33. (abstract, online access)
Kohler, Hans-Peter and Joseph L. Rodgers, Warren B. Miller, Axel Skytthe, Kaare Christensen (2006). "Bio-Social Determinants of Fertility." International Journal of Andrology, 29(2), 46-53.
Kohler, Hans-Peter, Jere R. Behrman and Axel Skytthe (2005). "Partner + Children = Happiness? The Effect of Fertility and Partnerships on Subjective Well-Being." Population and Development Review, 31(3), 407-445. (abstract, PDF)
Helleringer, Stéphane and Hans-Peter Kohler (2005). Social Networks, Risk Perceptions and Changing Attitudes Towards HIV/AIDS: New Evidence from a Longitudinal Study Using Fixed-Effect Estimation. Population Studies, 59(3), 265-282. (abstract, online access)
Kohler, Hans-Peter, Francesco C. Billari and José Antonio Ortega (2006). "Low Fertility in Europe: Causes, Implications and Policy Options." In F. R. Harris (Ed.), The Baby Bust: Who will do the Work? Who Will Pay the Taxes? Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 48-109. (working paper version, Amazon.com)
Rodgers, Joseph L. and Hans-Peter Kohler (2005). "Reformulating and Simplifying the DF Analysis Model." Behavior Genetics, 35(2), 211-217. (online access)
Stark, Laura and Hans-Peter Kohler (2004). "The Popular Debate about Low Fertility: An Analysis of the German Press, 1993 - 2001." European Journal of Population, 20(4), 293-321. (abstract, online access)
Kohler, Hans-Peter and José A. Ortega (2004). "Old Insights and New Approaches: Fertility Analysis and Tempo Adjustment in the Age-Parity Model." Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, 2, 57-89. (abstract, PDF)
Skirbekk, Vegard, Hans-Peter Kohler and Alexia Prskawetz (2004). "Birth Month, School Graduation and the Timing of Births and Marriages." Demography, 41(3), 547-568. (abstract, online access)
Skirbekk, Vegard, Hans-Peter Kohler and Alexia Prskawetz (2004). "The marginal effect of school leaving age on demographic events. A contribution to the discussion on causality." In S. Gustafsson and A. Kalwij (eds.) Education and Postponement of Maternity. Dordrecht (Holland): Kluwer Academic Publishers
Billari, Francesco and Hans-Peter Kohler (2004).
"Patterns of Low and Lowest-Low Fertility in Europe." Population
Studies 58(2), 161-176. (abstract, online access)
See also Billari Francesco
C. and Hans-Peter Kohler (2005) "Reply to the note by Frejka and
Sardon on our paper 'Patterns of low and lowest-low fertility in
Europe' and an erratum", Population Studies, 59(2), 239-245.
(online access)
Bühler, Christoph and Hans-Peter Kohler (2004). "Der Einfluss starker Beziehungen auf die Nutzung moderner Kontrazeptiva in Kenia." Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 33(1), 5-25.
Bühler, Christoph and Hans-Peter Kohler (2003). "Talking about AIDS: The influence of communication networks on individual risk perceptions of HIV/AIDS infection and favored protective behaviors in South Nyanza District, Kenya." Demographic Research, Special Collection 1(13), 398-438. (online access)
Hank, Karsten and Hans-Peter Kohler (2003). Gender preferences for children revisited: New evidence from Germany. Population (English Edition) 58(1), 133-143. (abstract)
Kohler, Hans-Peter and Joseph L. Rodgers (2003). "Education, Fertility and Heritability: Explaining a Paradox." In Kenneth W. Wachter and Rodolfo A. Bulatao (Eds.), Offspring: Human Fertility Behavior in Biodemographic Perspective. Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press, 46-90. (online access)
Kohler, Hans-Peter, Joseph L. Rodgers and Kaare Christensen (2003). Between Nurture and Nature: The Shifting Determinants of Female Fertility in Danish Twin Cohorts 1870--1968. Social Biology, 49(1-2), 76-106. (abstract, working paper version)
Christensen, Kaare, Hans-Peter Kohler, Olga Basso, Jørn Olsen, James W. Vaupel, Joseph L. Rodgers (2003). "The Correlation of Fecundability Among Twins: Evidence of a Genetic Effect on Fertility?" Epidemiology 14(1), 60-64. (abstract)
Behrman, Jere R., Hans-Peter Kohler and Susan C. Watkins (2002). "Social Networks and Changes in Contraceptive use over Time: Evidence from a Longitudinal Study in Rural Kenya." Demography 39(4), 713-736. (abstract, online access)
Kohler, Hans-Peter, Francesco C. Billari and José Antonio Ortega (2002). "The Emergence of Lowest-Low Fertility in Europe During the 1990s." Population and Development Review 28(4), 641-680. (abstract, PDF)
Rodgers, Joseph L. and Hans-Peter Kohler (2002). "Genetic Variance in Human Fertility: Biology, Psychology, or Both?" In Joseph L. Rodgers and Hans-Peter Kohler (Eds.), The Biodemography of Human Reproduction and Fertility. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 229-250.
Kohler, Hans-Peter and José A. Ortega (2003). "Fertility, Below-Replacement." In P. Demeny and G. McNicoll (Eds.), Enyclopedia of Population, Volume 1, New York: Macmillan Reference, pp. 405--409.
Stark, Laura and Hans-Peter Kohler (2002). "The Public Perception and Discussion of Falling Birth Rates: The Recent Debate Over Low Fertility in the Popular Press." Population Research and Policy Review 21(6), 535-574. (abstract, online access)
Billari, Francesco and Hans-Peter Kohler (2002). "The impact of union formation dynamics on first births in West Germany and Italy: Are there signs of convergence?" In E. Klijzing and M. Corijn (Eds.), Dynamics of Fertility and Partnership in Europe: Insights and Lessons from Comparative Research, Volume 2. Geneva/New York: United Nations, pp. 43-58. (abstract, earlier working paper version)
Kohler, Hans-Peter and Iliana Kohler (2002). "Fertility Decline in Russia in the Early and Mid 1990s: The Role of Economic Uncertainty and Labor Market Crises." European Journal of Population, 18(3), 233-262. (abstract, online access)
Kohler, Hans-Peter, Lisbeth B. Knudsen, Axel Skytthe and Kaare Christensen (2002). "The Fertility Pattern of Twins and the General Population Compared: Evidence from Danish Cohorts 1945-64." Demographic Research 6(14), 383-408. (abstract, online access)
Kohler, Hans-Peter and José Antonio Ortega (2002). "Tempo-Adjusted Period Parity Progression Measures: Assessing the Implications of Delayed Childbearing for Cohort Fertility in Sweden, the Netherlands and Spain." Demographic Research 6(7), 145-190. (abstract, online access)
Kohler, Hans-Peter and José Antonio Ortega (2002). "Tempo-Adjusted Period Parity Progression Measures, Fertility Postponement and Completed Cohort Fertility." Demographic Research 6(6), 91-144. (abstract, data and programs, online access)
Kohler, Hans-Peter and Christoph Bühler (2001). "Social Networks and Fertility." In Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, Volume 21, p. 14380-14388.
Alderman, Harold, Jere R. Behrman, Hans-Peter Kohler, John A. Maluccio, Susan C. Watkins (2001). "Attrition in Longitudinal Household Survey Data: Some Tests for Three Developing-Country Samples." Demographic Research, 5(4). (abstract, online access)
Rodgers, Joseph L., Kimberly Hughes, Hans-Peter Kohler, Kaare Christensen, Debby Doughty, David C. Rowe and Warren B. Miller (2001). "Genetic Influence Helps Explain Variation in Human Fertility Outcomes: Evidence from Recent Behavioral and Molecular Genetic Studies." Current Directions in Psychological Science, 10(5), 184-188. (abstract, online access)
Kohler, Hans-Peter and Joseph L. Rodgers (2001). "DF-Analyses of Heritability with Double-Entry Twin Data: Asymptotic Standard Errors and Efficient Estimation." Behavior Genetics, 31(2), 179-191. (abstract, data and programs, online access)
Kohler, Hans-Peter and Dimiter Philipov (2001). "Variance Effects in the Bongaarts-Feeney Formula." Demography, 38(1), 1-16. (abstract, data and programs, online access)
Kohler, Hans-Peter, Jere R. Behrman and Susan C. Watkins (2001). "The Density of Social Networks and Fertility Decisions: Evidence from S. Nyanza District, Kenya." Demography, 38(1), 43-58. (abstract, online access)
Rodgers, Joseph L., Hans-Peter Kohler, Kisten Kyvik and Kaare Christensen (2001). "Behavior Genetic Modeling of Human Fertility: Findings from a Contemporary Danish Twin Study." Demography, 38(1), 29-42. (abstract, online access)
Kohler, Hans-Peter and Eugene A. Hammel (2001). "On the Role of Families and Kinship Networks in Pre-industrial Agricultural Societies: An Analysis of the 1698 Slavonian Census." Journal of Population Economics, 14(1) 21-49. (abstract, online access)
Philipov, Dimiter and Hans-Peter Kohler (2001). "Tempo Effects in the Fertility Decline in Eastern Europe: Evidence from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Russia." European Journal of Population, 17(1), 37-60. (abstract, online access)
Ortega, Jose A. and Hans-Peter Kohler (2000). "A comment on "Recent European fertility patterns: Fitting curves to 'distorted' distributions" by T. Chandola, D.A. Coleman and R.W. Hiorns." Population Studies 54(3), 347-350. (online access)
Kohler, Hans-Peter (2000). "Fertility Decline as a Coordination Problem." Journal of Development Economics 63(2) 231-263. (abstract, online access)
Kohler, Hans-Peter and Iliana Kohler (2000). "Frailty Modelling for Adult and Old Age Mortality: The Application of a Modified DeMoivre Hazard Function to Sex Differentials in Mortality." Demographic Research, 3(8). (abstract, online access)
Kohler, Hans-Peter, Jere R. Behrman and Susan C. Watkins (2000). "Empirical Assessments of Social Networks, Fertility and Family Planning Programs: Nonlinearities and their Implications." Demographic Research, 3(7). (abstract, online access)
Kohler, Hans-Peter (2000). "Social Interaction and Fluctuations in Birth Rates." Population Studies 54(2), 223-237. (abstract, online access)
Kohler, Hans-Peter and Kaare Christensen (2000). "Genetic Influences on Fertility Behavior: Findings from a Danish Twin Study." In J. L. Rodgers, D. C. Rowe and W. B. Miller Genetic Influences on Fertility and Sexuality, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 67-84. (abstract)
Hank, Karsten and Hans-Peter Kohler (2000). "Gender Preferences for Children in Europe: Empirical Results from 17 FFS Countries." Demographic Research 2(1). (abstract, online access)
Kohler, Hans-Peter and Joseph L. Rodgers (1999). "DF-like Analyses of Binary, Ordered and Censored Variables using Probit and Tobit Approaches." Behavior Genetics, 29(4) 221-232. (abstract; online access; data and programs)
Kohler, Hans-Peter, Joseph L. Rodgers and Kaare Christensen (1999). "Is Fertility Behavior in our Genes: Findings from a Danish Twin Study." Population and Development Review 25(2), 253-288. (abstract; PDF)
Kohler, Hans-Peter (1997). Learning in Social Networks and Contraceptive Choice. Demography 34(3), 369-383. (abstract, online access)
Kohler, Hans-Peter (1997). Hedonic Migration Decisions and the Effect of Region Specific Amenities on Industrial Location: Could Silicon Valley be in South Dakota? Journal of Regional Science 37(3), 379-394. (abstract)
Kohler, Hans-Peter (1997). Fertility and Social Interaction: An Economic Approach. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California at Berkeley. (abstract)
Hammel, Eugene A. and Hans-Peter Kohler (1997). Kinship-based Resource Sharing in the Agrarian Economy of Frontier Slavonia, 1698: Evidence from an Early Census. History of the Family 1(4), 407-423. (online access)
Pflaumer, Peter and Hans-Peter Kohler (1993). The Leverage Effect of Warrants: An Empirical Investigation. American Statistical Association: 1993 Proceedings of the Business and Economic Statistics Section, 266-271.
Pflaumer, Peter with assistance of Hans-Peter Kohler (1992). Investitionsrechnung [Investment Calculus]. München: Oldenburg Verlag.
[Books] [Papers] [Reviews, etc.]
Kohler, Hans-Peter (2004). "Attitudes and Low Fertility: Reflections based on Danish Twin Data." In Ann C. Crouter and Alan Booth (Ed.), The New Population Problem: Why Families in Developed Counties are Shrinking and What it Means. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp. 99-113. (working paper version)
Watkins, Susan, Jere Behrman, Eliya M. Zulu, and Hans-Peter Kohler (2003). "Introduction to 'Research on Demographic Aspects of HIV/AIDS in Rural Africa'." Demographic Research, Special Collection 1(1), 1-30. (online access)
Kohler, Hans-Peter (2003). "Book Review of 'Diffusion Processes and Fertility Transition: Selected Perspectives.' Edited by John B. Casterline." Population Studies, 57(3), 371-372. (online access)
Ortega-Osona, José A. and Kohler, Hans-Peter (2001). "¿Está Cayendo Realmente la Fecundidad Española? Separación de los Efectos Intensidad, Calendario y Varianza en el Índice Sintético de Fecundidad." [Is Spanish Fertility Really Declining? Separating Intensity, Calendar and Variance Effects in the Total Fertility Rate] Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, 96, 95-122.
Kohler, Hans-Peter (2001). "Introduction to special issue on lowest low fertility." European Journal of Population, 17(1), 1-2. (online access)
Kohler, Hans-Peter (2001). "Comments on Morgan and King (2000): Three Reasons Why Demographers Should Pay Attention to Evolutionary Theories and Behaviour Genetics in the Analysis of Contemporary Fertility." European Journal of Population, 17(1), 31-35. (online access)
Kohler, Hans-Peter (2001). "Die Neue Demographie." Plenary presentation at the Schweriner Wissenschaftstage 2000, published in Ministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Ed.), Schweriner Wissenschaftstage: Bevölkerungsrückgang in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schwerin, p. 7-15 (also available as MPIDR working paper 2000-014).
Kohler, Hans-Peter and James W. Vaupel (2000). "Demography and its Relation to Other Disciplines." In Zdenek Pavlík (Ed.) Position of Demography Among Other Disciplines, Prague: Charles University, Faculty of Science, 19-26.
Kohler, Hans-Peter, Francesco C. Billari, Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, Jan M. Hoem (2000). "Forschungsschwerpunkte des Forschungsprogramms 'Fertilität, Familiendynamik und Bevölkerungsentwicklungen' am Max Planck Institut für Demografische Forschung." Zeitschrift für Familienforschung, 12(2), 109-119.
Philipov, Dimiter and Hans-Peter Kohler (2000). "Tempo and Quantum Effects in Fertility" [in Bulgarian, original title: Tempo i kvantum efekti v plodovitostta], Statistics (A journal of the Bulgarian National Statistical Institute) 4, 3-18.
Kohler, Hans-Peter (1997). The consideration of income and economic incentives in the FAMSIM model. In Wolfgang Lutz (ed.) FAMSIM Austria: A Prototype Dynamic Microsimulation Model For the Evaluation of Family Policies and Projections Based on the European Family and Fertility Surveys , Austrian Institute for Family Studies, Vienna, 84-99.
[Books] [Papers] [Reviews, etc.]