a gender wage gap, associated with lower female labour force participation rates and higher fertility. This paper … presents a growth model where saving, fertility and labour market participation are endogenously determined, and there is wage … through an increase in fertility. We find that for several countries a large fraction of the actual difference in output per …

fertility, and lower investment in physical and human capital. Furthermore, the feedback effect from economic prosperity to …

shown that a substantial number of couples used birth control for 'spacing' as well as 'stopping' fertility. Moreover … good. In general the results obtained do not fit with the 'Princeton' view of the European fertility transition, with its …

dependency ratio driven by changes in fertility and longevity. For the former the smoothing argument may be appropriate, but not …

Recent analyses of Ireland's marital fertility transition based on the Princeton Ig and the Stanford CPA measures are …

positive correlation between child labour, fertility and inequality across countries of similar income per capita. The model …, when regulations were introduced after a period of rising wage inequality, and coincided with rapidly declining fertility …

fertility behaviour of women 30-40 years old, born in the US, but whose parents were born elsewhere. We use past female labour … force participation and total fertility rates from the country of ancestry as our cultural proxies. These variables should … explanatory power for individual work and fertility outcomes, even after controlling for possible indirect effects of culture (e …

Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. We model the implications for … with birth order, since mothers near or beyond their desired total fertility are more likely to make use of the …

Analysis of marital fertility in rural Derry c. 1911 confirms the presence even then of a gap between Catholics and … more children than farmers. Controlling for these economic factors tends to widen the fertility gap between Catholics and …