less disutility of labor and have relatively lessutility of raising children. Motherhood has a negative effect on the …

The old-age security motive for fertility postulates that people's needs for old-age support raise the demand for … children. We test this widespread idea using the extension of social pensions in Namibia during the nineties. The reform …-reform pensions and differences in exposure across cohorts, we show that pensions substantially reduce fertility, especially in late …

fertility among minor women, aged 21 or younger, for whom access restrictions were most drastically lifted. We then evaluate how … examining its impact on female fertility control and human capital formation. We find that younger women who grew up in more …

local share of Han, we estimate that a woman gives birth to 0.65 fewer children if the average completed fertility among her …This article uses China's family planning policies to quantify and explain spillovers in fertility decisions. We test … whether ethnic minorities decreased their fertility in response to the policies, although only the majority ethnic group, the …

outcomes of other children but also the very existence of potential additional children. We address this problem by looking at … dizygotic twins. In these cases, the two children are born at the same time, so parents cannot make decisions about one twin … different way. Men with brothers earn more and are more likely to get married and have children than men with sisters. Women …

I study how retirement delays in one generation affect fertility in the subsequent generation. I use administrative … delay retirement while exempting those born earlier. I find that this reduced fertility among women with reform … argue that the fertility reduction is driven by reduced grandparental child care supply. My results suggest that delaying …

reason why certain women did not alter their fertility decisions during this time of economic uncertainty. We also show that … this preference for risk was then strongly transmitted to their children which may in turn explain their high criminal …

application of the bunching methodology to examine whether the war shifted the timing of fertility or changed women's completed … fertility. I disaggregate the number of births by age for cohorts of mothers, and estimate counterfactual distributions of … births by exploiting that women experienced the war at different ages. I show that the rise in fertility after the liberation …