In this survey, we argue that the economic analysis of fertility has entered a new era. First-generation models of … fertility choice were designed to account for two empirical regularities that, in the past, held both across countries and … across families in a given country: a negative relationship between income and fertility, and another negative relationship …

This chapter explores trends, causes and consequences of nonmarital and teen fertility in the United States and in … planning technologies, that likely contribute to the large changes in patterns of marriage and fertility observed in developed … nonmarital and teen fertility on adults' and children's outcomes remain, though recent evidence suggests more modest impacts than …

This paper tests the effects of fertility on household structure and parental labor supply in rural China. To solve the … ordinary least squares estimates show a negative correlation between fertility and parental labor supply. Using twinning as a … natural experiment, we do not find evidence on the negative effects of fertility on parental labor supply. By contrast, we …

fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender …

agree on wanting a child. Using newly available data on fertility preferences and outcomes, we show that indeed, babies are … bargaining model of fertility choice and match the model to data from a set of European countries with very low fertility rates …. The distribution of the burden of child care between mothers and fathers turns out to be a key determinant of fertility. A …

How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by …, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower rates of marriage and fertility, higher nonmarital births and reduced …

- both own education and that of parents - in delaying marriage and fertility of young women. …

The economic theory of fertility choice builds predominantly on the unitary model of the household, in which there is a … bear on fertility choice, and we point out promising future directions for this line of research. …