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 …

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 …

Beginning in the mid 1980s and extending through the early to mid 1990s, a substantial number of women and children … Health Statistics, we estimate fertility responses to these eligibility expansions. We measure changes in state Medicaid … fraction of women aged 15 to 44 who were eligible for Medicaid coverage for a pregnancy increased on average by 24 percentage …

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 …

much of the association is due to the medical intervention and how much is due to the characteristics of the women … selection bias and estimate its direction and magnitude. We find that adjusted mean differences in birthweight between women who …, black infants would experience gains of 130 grams, whites 234 grams, and Hispanics 183 grams. The gains for adequate as …

fertility decisions. Recognizing that housing is a major cost associated with child rearing, and assuming that children are … normal goods, we hypothesize that an increase in house prices will have a negative price effect on current period fertility … percent increase in fertility rates among owners and a 2.4 percent decrease among non-owners. At the mean U.S. home ownership …