The main purpose of this paper is to show how the labour market affects Spanish individual fertility decisions. Spain … is an interesting case due to its huge fertility decline. Our hypothesis is that precarious Spanish labour markets (i … hours) postpone first and second birth in any cohort, even accounting for any potential endogeneity between fertility and …

We estimate the harm from smoking during pregnancy upon child birth outcomes, using a rich dataset on a cohort of …

impact of power outages on fertility is an important policy issue. For example, barriers of access to family planning may … translate a temporary increase in fertility into a permanent increase in the population. In addition, if a woman is at a …

Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by economic uncertainty. We exploit this … that emotional attachment and risk attitudes play important roles in the fertility-crime relationship. Finally, results for …

This paper answers the question whether extreme power rationing can induce changes in human fertility and thus …-run fertility. Exploiting this variation, we show that women who had a black-out baby find themselves in worse socio …

Increases in female employment and falling fertility rates have often been linked to rising female wages. However, over … the last 30 years the US total fertility rate has been fairly stable while female wages have continued to grow. Over the … supply and, due to higher opportunity cost, lower fertility, they also lead to a partial reallocation of home production from …