This article analyzes the effect of public policy intervention in the production of health capital on fertility … endogenous fertility, in which the usual parental trade-off between the quantity and quality of their children is augmented with …

for heterogeneous effects by degree of prematurity, as well as whether family socioeconomic resources and school …

. While there was no change in the overall fertility rate, marital fertility declined, and there was an increase in nonmarital … relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior. …

economy would thus be negatively affected. -- migration ; human capital ; fertility ; brain drain ; economic growth …

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 …

We present a dynamic lifecycle model of women's choices with respect to partnership status, labour supply and fertility … uncertainty about a partner's abusive type creates incentives for women to delay fertility, reduce fertility overall, divorce more … and subsidized childcare fail to do so because they encourage early fertility. Income support also leads to less …