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 …

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source …

-friendly occupations. We estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of fertility, occupational choice, and labor supply using detailed survey and …-female wage gap as it evolves from labor market entry onward and the effect of pro-fertility policies. We show that a substantial … portion of the gender wage gap is explainable by realized and expected fertility and that the long-run effect of policies …

examines the impact of the privatization of kibbutzim on fertility behavior among members. We find that fertility declined by 6 … due to privatization, our results suggest that financial considerations may be a more modest factor in fertility decisions …

failure that may lead to inefficiently low equilibrium fertility and therefore to a need for government intervention. The …) model with fertility choice and altruism, and model ownership by introducing a minimum constraint on transfers from parents … transfer floor is binding, fertility choices are inefficient. We show how this inefficiency relates to dynamic inefficiency in …

of development (i.e., capital accumulation and declining fertility) exacerbated the tension in men's conflicting … their daughters. The model predicts that declining fertility would hasten reform of women's property rights whereas legal …

initial conditions. The degree of marital sorting, wage inequality, per capita income and fertility differentials are …

In the last century most countries have experienced both an increase in pension spending and a decline in fertility. We … argue that the interplay of pension generosity and development of capital markets is crucial to understand fertility … children, thus relaxing financial (saving) constraints and reducing fertility. We build a simple two-period OLG model to show …

In this paper we investigate how fertility decisions respond to unexpected career interruptions, which occur as a … displacement reduces average fertility by 5 to 10% in both the short and medium term (3 and 6 years) and that these effects are … reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises because displaced workers undergo a …