This paper reviews empirical evidence on the micro-level consequences of family planning programs in middle- and low …-income countries. In doing so, it focuses on fertility outcomes (the number and timing of births), women's health and socio … throughout the life cycle. Although effect sizes are heterogeneous, long-term studies imply that in practice, family planning …

fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a … shaping family life are stressed …

The twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Gary Becker's path-breaking "Treatise on the Family" provides an … occasion to reexamine both the American family and family economics. We begin by discussing how families have changed in recent … been family functions and home production by government programs and market transactions. After discussing recent work in …

fertility. We highlight four factors that facilitate combining a career with a family: family policy, cooperative fathers …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 …

, could family planning access affect intergenerational persistence of economic status? We extend the standard Becker …-Tomes model by incorporating an endogenous family planning choice. When the model is calibrated to match observed patterns of … 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 …