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 …

fertility choices in Brazil, a country where soap operas (novelas) portray families that are much smaller than in reality. We … the Globo signal have significantly lower fertility. The effect is strongest for women of lower socioeconomic status and … for women in the central and late phases of their fertility cycle, consistent with stopping behavior. The result is robust …

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 …

positive correlation between child labour, fertility and inequality across countries of similar income per capita. The model …, when regulations were introduced after a period of rising wage inequality, and coincided with rapidly declining fertility …

factors underlying historical fertility limitation, the role of parental education has received little attention. We combine … their fertility before the demographic transition. Despite controlling for several demand and supply factors, we find a … negative residual effect of women’s education on fertility. Instrumental-variable estimates, using exogenous variation in women …

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

availability of prenatal sex-diagnostic technology, the declining fertility rate is a hypothesized factor. Suppose a couple …. This paper empirically measures the relationship between desired fertility and the sex ratio. Standard survey questions on … fertility preferences ask the respondent her desired number of children of each sex, but people who want larger families have …