In this article, I examine the large Black / White fertility gap in the US. I question the "compositional argument … therefore test whether the difference could stem from the fact that individuals inherit of race-specic fertility norms. I show … that Black women who were born in a state where past cohorts of Black women had a high fertility rate tend to have more …

I enrich the findings according to which cultural proxies such as past total fertility rates in the country of origin … or number of siblings have a sizable effect on the fertility choice of second generation migrants. I use the TeO survey … that interviewed individuals established in France from different origins to investigate whether the effect of fertility …

distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and …

fertility is close to that of married mothers; (2) why childlessness exhibits a U-shaped relationship with education for both …

at marriage, fertility rate, and mean age at birth, we rank countries according to the Missing Brides Index. …

This paper shows that differences in fertility across European countries mainly emerge in the transition from the first …

of development policies on fertility. We measure the importance of the components of childlessness with a structural … model of fertility and marriage. Deep parameters are identified using census data from 36 developing countries. On average … heavily affected by unwanted births, and to underestimating the effect of promoting gender equality on fertility, except in …

annuity market with actuarially fair return, imposing the optimum fertility rate and the optimum survival rate leads the …

Very few studies have explored the optimality properties of the "standard model" of fertility where parents must …