China's high household savings rate has attracted great academic interest but remains a puzzle. Potential explanations … primary causes of high levels of savings among Chinese households …

In this chapter we revisit the relationship between income and fertility. There is overwhelming empirical evidence that … fertility is negatively related to income in most countries at most times. Several theories have been proposed in the literature …

Only a few rich nations are currently at replacement levels of fertility and many are considerably below. We believe … that changes in the status of women are driving fertility change. At low levels of female status, women specialize in … household production and fertility is high. In an intermediate phase, women have increasing opportunities to earn a living …

fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a …

The causal effects of fertility are a central focus in the social sciences, but the analysis is challenged by the … endogeneity of fertility choices. Earlier work has proposed several "natural experiments" from twin births or gender composition … rare (twins) and weak (gender composition) instrumental variables for fertility. This paper proposes a new "natural …

We estimate the effects of large, positive wealth shocks on marriage and fertility in a sample of Swedish lottery …'s attractiveness as prospective and current partners. Wealth also increases male fertility. The only discernible effect on female …

China's household saving rate has increased markedly since the mid-1990s and the age-savings profile has become U … stable while it is the transitory variance that rises sharply. A calibration of a buffer-stock savings model indicates that … rising savings rates among younger households are consistent with rising income uncertainty and higher saving rates among …