This paper attempts to disentangle the direct effects of experience from those of culture in determining fertility. We … use the GSS to examine the fertility of women born in the US but from different ethnic backgrounds. We take lagged values … of the total fertility rate in woman’s country of ancestry as the cultural proxy and use the woman’s number of siblings …

This paper examines a novel mechanism linking fertility and growth. There are three components to the model. First … to men's. Second, increasing women's relative wages reduces fertility by raising the cost of children more than household … income. Third, lower fertility raises the level of capital per worker. This positive feedback loop generates a demographic …

The most commonly used measure of reproductive behavior is the total fertility rate (TFR), which is a measure of the … number of children born per woman. However, almost no work exists measuring the fertility behavior of men. In this paper we … and women were each asked about their reproductive histories. We document a number of interesting differences in fertility …

endogenous savings, fertility, labor force participation, and gender wage discrimination, we demonstrate how economic development … fertility, and higher income. We use data from the World Value Survey and the International Social Survey Program and show that …

It is well known that highly `female' fields of study in tertiary education are characterized by higher fertility …-in-differences research design, to show that the share of women on study peer groups affects early fertility levels only little. Early … fertility by endogamous couples, i.e., by tertiary graduates from the same field of study, declines for women and increases for …

Many countries with "deficits" in their female population see banning sex-selective abortion as a way to curb the … the impact of access to abortion on sex ratios at birth and relative female infant mortality. We use the universe of birth …-selective abortion caused by the legalization of abortions to identify the causal effects of sex-selective abortion on sex ratios at …