-exclusive breastfeeding. Falsification exercises suggest that selection concerns such as selective fertility, mobility, and infant mortality …

Population policies are defined here as voluntary programs which help people control their fertility and expect to … improve their lives. There are few studies of the long-run effects of policyinduced changes in fertility on the welfare of … contraception or age-specific fertility. The dearth of long-run family planning experiments has led economists to consider …

It is generally thought that both the demand for children and the cost of fertility control are major forces in … fertility decline. Most researchers find that family planning programs in developing countries, which lower the cost of … fertility control, play a small role in the fertility transition relative to other economic factors that affect the demand for …

. In contrast to studies for other developed countries, we find a significant negative effect of education on fertility … the particularly high opportunity costs of child-rearing in Germany. -- fertility ; education ; timing of births …

This paper investigates the effect of education on fertility under inflexible labor market conditions. We exploit … complementary data sets, we examine different fertility outcomes over the life cycle. In contrast to evidence for other developed … countries, we find that increased education causally reduces completed fertility. This negative effect operates through a …

This article analyzes the effect of public policy intervention in the production of health capital on fertility … endogenous fertility, in which the usual parental trade-off between the quantity and quality of their children is augmented with …

This paper exploits biological fertility shocks as instrumental variables to estimate the causal effect of motherhood … that promote early motherhood. While such policies may succeed at increasing total period fertility rates, they will be …