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 … food-borne disease, our model also makes predictions regarding health outcomes. We find that child-mortality patterns …

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 … explaining the positive correlation between fertility and female labor supply along the educational gradient. In our model …

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 …

fertility choices in Brazil, a country where soap operas (novelas) portray families that are much smaller than in reality. We … the Globo signal have significantly lower fertility. The effect is strongest for women of lower socioeconomic status and … for women in the central and late phases of their fertility cycle, consistent with stopping behavior. The result is robust …

There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household … female participation and fertility, using individual data from the French Labor Force Survey and a fairly detailed … fertility decisions in France, both for the first and for the third child. As an example, an unconditional child benefit with a …

This Paper develops a theory of fertility and child educational choice that offers an explanation for the persistence … of poverty within and across countries. The joint determination of the quality (education) and quantity of children in … human capital. As a result, the poor choose high fertility rates with low education investment and therefore, their …