Demographic Research a free, expedited, online journal of peer-reviewed research and commentary in the population sciences published by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research Konrad-Zuse Str. 1, D-18057 Rostock · GERMANY www.demographic-research.org DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH VOLUME 19, ARTICLE 12, PAGES 293-360 PUBLISHED 01 JULY 2008 http://www.demographic-research.org/Volumes/Vol19/12/ DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2008.19.12 Research Article Austria: Persistent low fertility since the mid-1980s Alexia Prskawetz Tomáš Sobotka Isabella Buber Henriette Engelhardt Richard Gisser This publication is part of Special Collection 7: Childbearing Trends and Policies in Europe (http://www.demographic-research.org/special/7/) © 2008 Prskawetz et al. This open-access work is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 2.0 Germany, which permits use, reproduction & distribution in any medium for non-commercial purposes, provided the original author(s) and source are given credit. See http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/de/