This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and …

first child raised fertility and increased the probability that the family was living without a father. We find that for our … associated with lower fertility, particularly for natives. Thus, by the 2008-2013 period, any apparent son preference in … fertility decisions appears to have been outweighed by factors such as cost concerns in raising girls or increased female …

government, lower fertility rates, and better overall gender equality experienced lower income inequality, ceteris paribus. These …

Fertility has a strong biological component generally ignored by economists. Using the UK Biobank, we analyze the …

due to Chinese import competition lead to a move towards family, with higher rates of fertility, parental leave, and …-earning women in their late 30s contribute strongly to the gender difference in fertility because switching to new comparable …

the interactions between climate change and population dynamics. We develop an analytical model of endogenous fertility …

significant negative statistical relationship between 16 years lagged fertility and the rate of immigration in a panel of 23 … countries, which indicates that immigration compensates for low fertility in the labor market …

We investigate the determinants of the fertility decline in Europe from 1830 to 1970 using a newly constructed dataset … of linguistic distances between European regions. We find that the fertility decline resulted from a gradual diffusion of … new fertility behavior from French-speaking regions to the rest of Europe. We observe that societies with higher education …