the Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance System in South Africa to argue that: 1) long-term presence and …

This paper investigates the impact of female employment on fertility in two urban contexts in sub-Saharan Africa: Dakar … corroborated in Lomé, where women are likely to consider work as a legitimate alternative to their role as a mother or spouse … Dakar working does not seem to hinder family formation. Greater involvement of women in the labour force is not the main …

-order birth rates jointly, with a common unobserved factor. The corresponding education-fertility relationships among men, however … corresponding effects for men are also positive, but not more strongly positive than those for women. These results may suggest that … we should not take for granted that women’s education generally reduces fertility, and that it does so because of …

The aim of this paper is to investigate how occupational prospects affect first-birth decisions of men and women … rests on how welfare state alignment affects fertility rationales in the context of either promising or bleak occupational …, evoking a delay of family formation among British and German women with a close labour market attachment. Furthermore, a …

During recent decades fertility in Sweden has evolved in tandem with the business cycle. Supported by social policies …, both women and men tend to postpone starting a family until they have acquired a secure job with decent earnings. In this … women and men and for Swedish- and foreign-born people in Sweden. We use a combination of Labor Force Survey data on …