The relationship between fertility and employment among women is a challenging topic that requires further exploration … two-way relationship between women's employment and fertility in Turkey using a hazard approach with piece-wise constant … context. Specifically, a separate analysis is made of the association between the employment statuses of women in their first …

among women who are most likely to consider childcare costs when making fertility decisions - namely, married women with a … the types of women who have stronger fertility relative to labor supply responses to immigrant-induced changes in … childcare industry, this paper examines whether college-educated native women respond to immigrant-induced lower cost and …

women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to … garment sector jobs to women living further away from factories, to years before the factories arrive close to some villages …

-in-difference design and a fertility survey with information on conception, contraception, and labor supply arrangements. Childcare …. In a country with the lowest total fertility rate in the world and that often performs middling in rankings of gender … inequality, we conclude that paid childcare leave for working women confers some positive benefits. …

show, using data from a purposefully designed nationally representative survey for Bangladesh, that among women of … childbearing age, son bias in stated fertility preferences has weakened and there is an emerging preference for gender balance. We … analysis, we show that in contrast to stated fertility preferences, actual fertility decisions are still shaped by son …

in the 1980s to empirically examine the causal impact of women's education on fertility in rural China by difference … results are also partly explained by more educated women preferring quality to quantity of children, placing a greater value …

evidence that import competition affected fertility decisions. The results highlight the role of gains from joint consumption …

This paper examines the impact of manufacturing employment on women's health and decision-making power within … households in Lesotho. Under the US African Growth and Opportunity Act of 2000, the employment of women in ready-made garment … opportunities. Women residing closer to the industrial zones were particularly affected. These changes are exploited for …

) on fertility among reproductive-age women. We find that IU reduces the number of children born, with more pronounced … gender roles, a reduction in the importance placed on ancestral lines, deteriorated health and reduced fertility preferences. …

We present a dynamic life-cycle model of women's labor supply, marriage, and fertility choices that explicitly … increase fertility but decrease employment, while a decrease in childcare costs for employed women would increase both … fertility and labor supply, supporting women's overall health. …