Over the last two decades Indonesia has experienced a signifcant decline in fertility rates and substantial increases … changes in fertility. The empirical analysis is performed using annual data from the national household survey Susenas for the …. Therefore, reductions in fertility rates seem to have led to two opposing effects that contributed to aggregate levels of female …

been the world's fastest growing region over the last decade. Economists have often argued that high fertility rates are … mainly driven by women's demand for children (and not by family planning efforts) with low levels of unwanted fertility … relationship between wanted fertility and number of children born in a panel of 200 country-years controlling for country …

that the correlation between earnings and fertility has become more positive over time for women but is virtually unchanged … men. I suggest that decreasing opportunity costs of motherhood as well as strategic timing of fertility to reduce wage …

of a cash-for-care (CFC) policy introduced in Norway in 1998, and compare the fertility behaviour of eligible and … a slower progression to both second and third births, and short term fertility is hence lower in this group. The …

While fertility is positively correlated across generations, the causal effect of children's experience with larger … sibships on their own fertility in adulthood is poorly understood. Using the sex composition of the two first-born children as … an instrumental variable, we estimate the effect of sibship size on adult fertility. Estimations are done on high …

). Combining self-reported union histories with register data on fertility histories, we construct a data set of person months for …

The relationship between income, cost of childrearing and fertility is of considerable political and theoretical … fertility. The variation comes from a regional child benefit and tax reform implemented in the northern municipalities of the … group. Individual-level multivariate analysis suggests that a reduced direct cost of children increases fertility, mainly …

Fertility contagion through social networks increasingly attracts the interest of demographers. While these theories … children as random fertility shocks. We find no consistent significant effects of random shocks to a sibling's fertility on ego …'s fertility. First born women have larger families over time if a younger sibling chooses to have three children, as captured by …

economy, the role of women for fertility decisions and human capital investments is particularly important. Yet, we believe …

We address the relationship between family policies and fertility in Norway, including three somewhat different … fertility outcomes, there is wide heterogeneity in how they respond to the policies. …