with birth order, since mothers near or beyond their desired total fertility are more likely to make use of the …Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. We model the implications for … contraceptive properties of nursing. Second, given a preference for having sons, mothers with no or few sons want to conceive again …

and purchased child care (e.g. childminders, nannies) for the care and rearing of children. The theoretical model implies … that the impact of the mother's wage on her completed fertility varies with the market price of child care, and that this …

accumulation of human capital during the transition from stagnation to growth. This is because greater longevity raises children … also casts doubts on recent findings about a positive effect of health on education. This is because health raises the … that longevity and health have had a minor effect, if any, on the transition from stagnation to growth via investment in …

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 …

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 …

Conventional wisdom suggests that in developed countries income and fertility are negatively correlated. We present new … evidence that between 2001 and 2009 the cross-sectional relationship between fertility and women's education in the U.S. is U … and mothers to newborns regardless of marital status. In this paper, we advance the marketization hypothesis for …

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source … decrease in childlessness and an increase in the average number of children per woman. Our findings are robust to a number of …

-friendly occupations. We estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of fertility, occupational choice, and labor supply using detailed survey and …-female wage gap as it evolves from labor market entry onward and the effect of pro-fertility policies. We show that a substantial … portion of the gender wage gap is explainable by realized and expected fertility and that the long-run effect of policies …

Prior to 1996, Israelis in collective communities (kibbutzim) shared the costs of raising children equally. This paper … examines the impact of the privatization of kibbutzim on fertility behavior among members. We find that fertility declined by 6 … due to privatization, our results suggest that financial considerations may be a more modest factor in fertility decisions …

failure that may lead to inefficiently low equilibrium fertility and therefore to a need for government intervention. The … friction we investigate is related to the ownership of children. If parents have no claim on their children's income, then the …) model with fertility choice and altruism, and model ownership by introducing a minimum constraint on transfers from parents …