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 …

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 …

This Paper develops a theory of fertility and child educational choice that offers an explanation for the persistence … human capital. As a result, the poor choose high fertility rates with low education investment and therefore, their … offspring are poor as well. Furthermore, the high fertility rates in poor economies dilute physical capital accumulation and …

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 …

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 …