Mind the gap: the role of involuntary factors in explaining the gap between desired and realized fertility in European countries - a microsimulation model • Alessandra Carioli, University of Southampton ; Daniel Devolder, Centre d’Estudis Demogràfics (CED), UAB

The effect of experiences with the first child on higher order parity • Petra Buhr, Universitat Bremen ; Katharina Lutz, Universitat Bremen

When a poor index becomes a good proxy: on the predictive value of individual fertility preferences at the cohort macro-level • Eva Beaujouan, Wittgenstein Centre (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU) ; Laurent Toulemon, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED)

Gender roles and fertility intentions in Poland, Hungary, Belgium and Norway • Katarzyna Kocot-Górecka, Warsaw School of Economics ; Irena E. Kotowska, Warsaw School of Economics

Unintended births among women in the United States: might some be “okay” instead? • Julia McQuillan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln ; Stacy Tiemeyer, University of Nebraska-Lincoln ; Michael S. Rendall, University of Maryland ; Patricia Wonch Hill, University of Nebraska-Lincoln ; Arthur Greil, Alfred University