Using data from the 1970 and 1980 Censuses, we examined the fertility of immigrant women from the Middle East, Asia …, Latin America and the Caribbean where fertility rates averaged in excess of 5.5 children per women during the period of … source countries were found to have very similar unadjusted fertility to native-born women. The small immigrant …

individual female's life span to determine the timing of childbearing. Fertility affects women's behavior through three channels … age at first birth rises at an increasing rate with the productivity loss from children; and (iii) women of greater …

women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to … garment sector jobs to women living further away from factories, to years before the factories arrive close to some villages …

higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare … opportunities outside the home. Frontier women were less likely to report "gainful employment," but among those who did, relatively … more had high-status occupations. Together, these findings integrate contrasting narratives about frontier women …

We investigate women's fertility, labor and marriage market responses to a health innovation that led to reductions in … allow women to start fertility later and invest more in the labor market. We present a new theory of fertility that … intensive and extensive margin fertility, a decline in the chances of ever having married, increased labor force participation …

This paper examines the effect of a nationwide healthcare reform implemented in Turkey on women's fertility decisions …'s position is to encourage fertility behavior and discourage birth control practices among women at prime childbearing ages … clinics, called Family Health Centers, on a walk-in basis. Although reducing fertility was not specified among the goals of …

The vast majority of China's fertility decline predates the famous One Child Policy - and instead occurred under its … predecessor, the Later, Longer, Fewer (LLF) fertility control policy. In this paper, we first study LLF's contribution to marriage … and fertility behavior, finding that the policy reduced China's total fertility rate by about 0.9 births per woman …

How do children affect women in science? We investigate this question using rich biographical data, linked with patents … 48% of fathers and 46% of women without children. Mothers face comparable tenure rates to other assistant professors for … who survive in science are extremely positively selected: Compared with other married women, mothers patent (publish) 2 …

their daughters. The model predicts that declining fertility would hasten reform of women's property rights whereas legal …Why has the expansion of women's economic and political rights coincided with economic development? This paper … investigates this question, focusing on a key economic right for women: property rights. The basic hypothesis is that the process …