This paper attempts to disentangle the direct effects of experience from those of culture in determining fertility. We … use the GSS to examine the fertility of women born in the US but from different ethnic backgrounds. We take lagged values … of the total fertility rate in woman’s country of ancestry as the cultural proxy and use the woman’s number of siblings …

to men's. Second, increasing women's relative wages reduces fertility by raising the cost of children more than household …This paper examines a novel mechanism linking fertility and growth. There are three components to the model. First …, increases in capital per worker raise women's relative wages, since capital is more complementary to women's labour input than …

The most commonly used measure of reproductive behavior is the total fertility rate (TFR), which is a measure of the … number of children born per woman. However, almost no work exists measuring the fertility behavior of men. In this paper we … and women were each asked about their reproductive histories. We document a number of interesting differences in fertility …

endogenous savings, fertility, labor force participation, and gender wage discrimination, we demonstrate how economic development … fertility, and higher income. We use data from the World Value Survey and the International Social Survey Program and show that …

It is well known that highly `female' fields of study in tertiary education are characterized by higher fertility …-in-differences research design, to show that the share of women on study peer groups affects early fertility levels only little. Early … fertility by endogamous couples, i.e., by tertiary graduates from the same field of study, declines for women and increases for …

over born and unborn babies relinquished for adoption by their birth mothers. We show that adoptive parents exhibit …