of development (i.e., capital accumulation and declining fertility) exacerbated the tension in men's conflicting … their daughters. The model predicts that declining fertility would hasten reform of women's property rights whereas legal …

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 …