The historical fertility transition is one of the most important events in economic history. This study provides new … the sharp decline in fertility that took place in Britain beginning in that year. We then show that similar declines are … highlight the importance of changing social norms in the historical fertility transition and provide novel evidence showing that …

subsequent fertility …

Using variation in crop prices induced by large swings in demand World War I, we examine the fertility response to … price index reduced fertility by around 8 percent both immediately and in the years following the boom. We further document …. Extensive robustness checks and analysis of potential mechanisms indicate that the decrease in fertility was driven by increased …

, providing a means to test whether incentives for acquiring education affected fertility decisions. Employing an … this negative relationship between fertility and education disappeared with a fall in the return to education due to the … that fertility choices respond to changes in the return to human capital. The implications of these findings for theories …

higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …

Is the persistently high fertility in West Africa today rooted in the decades of forced labor migration under colonial …, and lower realized and desired fertility today. We show evidence suggesting that the inherited pattern of low … rule out women's empowerment or improvements in human and physical capital as pathways for the fertility decline. These …

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