find that babies are born healthier when the local unemployment rate is high. Although fertility is lower during recessions …-effects. Analysis of National Health Survey data shows that fertility-age women engage in healthier behaviors during recessions (in …

Europeans restricted their fertility long before other parts of the world did so. By raising the marriage age of women … up to 40%. We analyze the rise of this first socio-economic institution in history that limited fertility through delayed … Black Death thus set into motion a virtuous circle of higher wages and fertility decline that underpinned Europe’s high per …

I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated … that the benefit did lead to a significant increase in fertility, as intended, part of it coming from an immediate … results suggest that child benefits of this kind may successfully increase fertility, as well as affecting family well …

an important predictor of adult life expectancy. This theory is embodied in an OLG framework where fertility, longevity … both population growth and fertility, and a late increase in secondary educational attainments. …

improvement in life expectancies. Nevertheless, a crucial variable shaping differences in demographic growth is fertility. In this … paper we identify as important exogenous variables affecting fertility female education levels, infant mortality, and racial …