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 …

This paper explores how historical gender roles become entrenched as norms over the long run. In the historical United … States, gender roles on the frontier looked starkly different from those in settled areas. Male-biased sex ratios led to … higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …

Sub-Saharan Africa exhibits higher fertility and lower education than other world regions. Economic and demographic … theory posit that these phenomena are linked, with slow fertility decline connected to slow education growth among both …, fertility, and child education in female birth cohorts surrounding the onset of the region's fertility transition. Fertility …

1930, we find that higher immigration to France translated into lower fertility in the region of origin after a few decades … themselves became French citizens achieved lower fertility, particularly those who moved to French regions with the lowest … fertility levels. We interpret these findings in terms of cultural remittances, consistently with insights from a theoretical …

This paper examines a novel mechanism linking fertility and growth. Household fertility is determined by relative wages … of women and men. Increasing women's wages reduces fertility by raising the cost of children relatively more than … household income. Lower fertility raises the level of capital per worker which in turn, since capital is more complementary to …

-if the worker is a woman. The female biological clock-low fertility beyond the early forties-is central to this gender …This paper shows that globalization has far-reaching implications for the economy's fertility rate and family structure … competition lead to a shift towards family, with more parental leave and higher fertility as well as more marriages and fewer …