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This chapter provides an overview of the main achievements of the REPRO project as reported in this volume and in other related publications by members of the REPRO team. It also considers limitations and discusses opportunities for future research that arise and are still to be addressed. Last but not least the chapter discusses the relevance of the REPRO approach for drawing policy implications.
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Miller (e.g., Miller 2011a) discusses this as proceptive behaviour, i.e., behaviour directed toward having a child.
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Such as COFACE, IFFD and ELFAC, participants in the EU-funded Families And Societies project which was launched in 2013. To focus the discussion better in the following text, we use “policies” to mean both governmental policies and CSO and NGO activities.
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Philipov, D., Klobas, J.E., Liefbroer, A.C. (2015). Reproductive Decision-Making: A Milestone, and the Road Ahead. In: Philipov, D., Liefbroer, A., Klobas, J. (eds) Reproductive Decision-Making in a Macro-Micro Perspective. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9401-5_7
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