human capital accumulation, non-separable preferences of females and child care costs on females life-cycle fertility and …, labor force participation and fertility decisions is estimated. In that model, experience on the job raises future wages … policy simulations which shows that human capital accumulation is the most important determinant of life-cycle fertility …

fertility and lower investment in physical and human capital. Furthermore, the feedback effect from economic prosperity to …

A large number of pairs of countries exhibit a dynamic pattern in which: (i) Fertility in both countries declines … across time; (ii) Initially one country has higher fertility and lower per-capita income compared to the other; (iii) In time …, as per-capita income converges, fertility rates in the poorer country become lower than in the richer one. This paper …

decisions about fertility and time investments in heterogeneous types of human capital. These decisions depend on different … education and fertility decisions, the model is able to generate dynamics that can replicate the historical development pattern … fertility to low mortality and low fertility arises, with an intermediate phase of increasing fertility despite falling …

models of fertility, the one by Barro and Becker (1989), and the one inpired by Caldwell and developed by Boldrin and Jones …We examine the effects of changes of government provided old age pensions on fertility choices in the context of two … public pension system on fertility in the Barro and Becker model depends on whether child rearing costs are primarily in …

developed with three ingredients: endogenous fertility, investment in land, and migration. The secular decline in fertility is … driven by the rise in real wages. The relative abundance of land in the West promotes higher fertility. The model is … simulated to see whether it can match the time-series decomposition of population growth between migration and fertility. It can …

After the fall in fertility during the Demographic Transition, many developed countries experienced a baby bust …, followed by the Baby Boom and subsequently a return to low fertility. Received wisdom from the Demography literature links … these large fluctuations in fertility to the series of Economics 'shocks' that occurred with similar timing -- the Great …

This paper incorporates fertility and altruism into the ``value of life'' framework. Two dimensions of fertility and … fertility, life expectancy gains have a twofold effect: they directly increase utility via increased survival probabilities, and … valuations when fertility choices are endogenous and individuals are altruistic towards their offspring. Calculations using U …

been a marked trend towards lower fertility and higher female labor force participation. However, change did not occur in a … uniform fashion: during the post-war Baby Boom, fertility rates increased substantially, until the long-term downward trend …

-1990. Second, we study the consequences of parental leave policies on fertility decisions and gender differences in employment and …