fertility rates are higher, the elderly do not appear to have lower life evaluations when they live with children; such living …

look at the causal effect of family size on completed educational attainment, fertility, and earnings. For the purposes of …

countries reduce fertility or improve socio-economic outcomes. Despite suggestive associations, disagreement persists because … independently later in life. Although family planning explains only about 10% of Colombia%u2019s fertility decline, it appears to … have reduced the otherwise substantial costs of fertility control and may be among the most effective development …

variation to look at the causal effect of family size on completed educational attainment, fertility, and earnings. For the …

. This is not explained by differential fertility by social class over the cycle. Ability itself, as measured at age 10 …

This article presents causal evidence on the impact of fertility on women’s subjective well-being using quasi …. I further establish that the positive impact of fertility on subjective well-being can be explained by related increases …

Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. We model the implications for … with birth order, since mothers near or beyond their desired total fertility are more likely to make use of the …

Conventional wisdom suggests that in developed countries income and fertility are negatively correlated. We present new … evidence that between 2001 and 2009 the cross-sectional relationship between fertility and women's education in the U.S. is U … explaining the positive correlation between fertility and female labor supply along the educational gradient. In our model …