individual female's life span to determine the timing of childbearing. Fertility affects women's behavior through three channels …

We analyze theoretically and empirically the impact of comparative advantage in international trade on fertility. We … model is that countries with comparative advantage in female-labor intensive goods are characterized by lower fertility … empirically that countries with comparative advantage in industries employing primarily women exhibit lower fertility. We use a …

fertility. The paper suggests a link between changes in mortality and transformations in the role of women in society that has … capital and to have children. Particularly, gains in adult longevity reduce fertility, increase investments in market human … reductions, though reducing fertility, do not generate this same pattern of changes. The model reconciles the increase in female …

class of indirect inference models. Our smoothing procedure makes use of importance sampling weights in estimation of the … of women's fertility on their human capital accumulation. We find that the curvature in the wage profile is determined … driven primarily by age. We also find a modest effect of fertility induced nonemployment spells on human capital accumulation …

Fertility change is distinct from other forms of social and economic change because it directly alters the size and … composition of the next generation. This paper studies how changes in population composition over the fertility transition feed … back into the evolution of average fertility across generations. Theory predicts that changes in the relationship between …

Despite being key to theories of economic growth and the demographic transition, evidence on how fertility responds to … aggregate income change is mixed. We analyze economic growth and fertility change in the developing world over six decades …, using data on 2.3 million women from 255 surveys in 81 countries. We find that fertility responds differently to …