China's high household savings rate has attracted great academic interest but remains a puzzle. Potential explanations …

The vast majority of China's fertility decline predates the famous One Child Policy - and instead occurred under its … and fertility behavior, finding that the policy reduced China's total fertility rate by about 0.9 births per woman …, explaining only 28% of China's modern fertility decline. Given son preference, we then consider the parallel issue of sex …

China, we find interesting interactions between fertility and migration decisions in various counterfactual experiments with … migration equilibrium framework with rural agents heterogeneous in skills and fertility preferences. We then establish and … characterize a mixed migration equilibrium where high-skilled rural agents with low fertility preferences always migrate to cities …

pollution distorts individuals' fertility behaviors in China. We document a robust pattern in which increased pollution over …We incorporate pollution exposure into Becker's "Quantity-Quality" (Q-Q) model of fertility and quantify how air … time negatively affects the fertility of ethnic Han people, who comprise approximately 92% of the Chinese population. These …

In this survey, we argue that the economic analysis of fertility has entered a new era. First-generation models of … fertility choice were designed to account for two empirical regularities that, in the past, held both across countries and … across families in a given country: a negative relationship between income and fertility, and another negative relationship …

unintended fertility, we find that intergenerational mobility is significantly lower than that in the standard model. In a policy …

Over the past century fertility behavior in the United Stated has undergone profound changes Measured by cohort … fertility the average number of children per married woman had declined from about 5.5 children at the time of the Civil War to … took place in the dispersion of fertility among these women: the percentage of women with, say, seven or more children …

on a small scale, could alter incentives surrounding fertility. Using synthetic control and difference …-in-differences models to account for confounding factors and unobserved heterogeneity, we model the effect of income on fertility by … increased fertility and reduced the spacing between births, particularly for females in the 20-44 year age group. Our results …

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