with birth order, since mothers near or beyond their desired total fertility are more likely to make use of the …Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. We model the implications for … contraceptive properties of nursing. Second, given a preference for having sons, mothers with no or few sons want to conceive again …

Fertility decisions are often made by partners who may disagree. We develop a model in which an initial gender gap in … ideal fertility prevents effective communication between spouses about the costs of childbearing incurred by women. This … mechanism is likely to further widen the spousal disagreement over fertility in environments where maternal health risk is high …

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 …

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 …

quantitative macroeconomic theory. We apply the model to examine the effect of a change in fertility from the UN medium-variant to …We assess quantitatively the effect of exogenous reductions in fertility on output per capita. Our simulation model …

dimensions, exploring in detail the role of fertility, and possibly divorce in the integration process. We exploit rich …, identifying marital selection and fertility choices as fundamental socialization mechanisms. The estimated cultural intolerance of …, as well as fertility and homogamy rates, slow-down the cultural integration of some immigrant ethnic minorities …