effects, we use variation in the exposure of local labor markets to import competition from China based on their baseline … during this period increased the share of single low-educated people and decreased their marriage rates. There is little … evidence that import com-petition affected fertility decisions. The results highlight the role of gains from joint consumption …

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in England and …

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 …

marital patterns by education for men. -- marriage ; divorce ; fertility ; education …: Trends in Marriage, Divorce and Fertility,"NBER Chapters,in: Topics in Demography and the EconomyNational Bureau of Economic …This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and …

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

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 …

undesirable, and where there is imperfect fertility control, leading to involuntary childlessness/parenthood. Using an equivalent … consumption approach in the consumption-fertility space, we first show that the identification of the worst-off individuals is not … robust to how the social evaluator fixes the reference fertility level. Adopting the ex post egalitarian social criterion …

administrative vital statistics, we find that birth control clinics accounted for 5.0-7.8% of the overall fertility decline until …

This paper presents novel causal evidence on the effects of pro-natalist cash transfers on fertility, sex ratio at … total fertility rate in 2015 would have been 4.7% lower without the cash transfers. Surprisingly, the cash transfers had an …