retrospective data from the Family Fertility Surveys collected in the 1990s. Most of our predictions are confirmed by a multi …

explain the difference in fertility between these two groups using a switching regression analysis, which enables us to …

unobserved heterogeneity or state dependence, and (2) if fertility is exogenous to labor supply. Until recently, the consensus … was that unobserved heterogeneity is very important, and fertility is endogenous. But Hyslop (1999) challenged this. Using … that fertility is exogenous. Here, we extend Hyslop (1999) to allow classification error in employment status, using an …

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 …

Fertility has begun to fall in Sub-Saharan Africa but it remains high on average and particularly for a few countries …. This paper examines African fertility using a panel data set of 47 Sub-Saharan countries between 1962 and 2003. Fixed and … results support Caldwell’s hypothesis and are generally supportive of hypothesis that a fertility transition is occurring. HIV …

. Findings for another indicator of traditional gender roles, source country fertility rates, are broadly similar, with … substantial and persistent negative effects of source country fertility on the labor supply of female immigrants except when we …

fertility due to son preferences. Under son preferences, childbearing and fertility timing are determined conditional on the … households. However, sibling size has adverse effects on per-child investment in education, in particular when fertility is high. …

This paper analyzes the effect of delayed motherhood on fertility dynamics for women living in several European …