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 …

marital patterns by education for men. -- marriage ; divorce ; fertility ; education …This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and … women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap …

sex-selective abortions, the fertility decisions of Armenian, Georgian, and Azeri parents living in Russia in the late …

We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel … teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the German case. We find that teenage fertility is associated with … teenage age and education, with the income of the teenager's family, with migration status, residence in East Germany, and …

the fertility technology. On the opposite, ex post egalitarianism always recommends marginal taxation. …

, villages, and manors in 1871 Prussia. We study religion, literacy, fertility, and group segregation by location type (town … it is in villages and manors. Finally, a larger share of Jews is associated with lower fertility in towns, which is not …

progress in upper-secondary education. We observe a substantive difference in the rate of progress between natives and students …-track - entering the second year of upper-secondary education - is 15 percentage points. Observable differences in cognitive and non …-cognitive skills can explain the gap in the success rate within upper-secondary education, but cannot fully explain the difference in …