Between two worlds: Cohort fertility dynamics before, during, and after the transition to a market economy in Hungary – A decomposition analysis (by Laura Szabó)

Background: The collapse of state socialism and Hungary’s transition to a market economy after 1989 greatly changed societal structures, including patterns of fertility and education. Objective: This study examines whether changes in the completed cohort fertility rate (CFR) among Hungarian women born between 1920 and 1982 resulted from shifts in educational composition or fertility within educational groups. Methods: Using Kitagawa’s decomposition method, we split CFR change into structural and