assistance. As such, availability of grandmothers affects the cost of having children, and hence fertility decisions of young … parents. In this paper, we develop a simple model to assess the fertility implications of the fluctuations in both output (as …

, urbanization and female labour force participation play in determining fertility of women in Pakistan. ARDL bound testing approach … to 2009. Empirical results show that there exists a long run as well as short run relationship between fertility and … relationship between all three determinants with fertility. Female education and urbanization of the society play significant role …

We present new data documenting the secular decline in fertility in the states of the United States, the dramatic … convergence in fertility, child schooling, parental schooling, survival probabilities. In addition we document the disparate … correlated with falling fertility, rising education levels of parents is strongly negatively related to fetility, and that …

) increases fertility by changing the tax burden of different generations. A higher current income tax increases fertility by … utility for them, which also increases current fertility if parents have Barro-Becker type preferences (the children's utility … generate a significant increase in fertility, which in magnitude accounts for 48% of the postwar baby boom in the US. …