differences in participation and fertility rates for women from different European countries can be attributed to the … educational levels, childcare and optional parental leaves have a larger impact on the fertility and participation decisions of … women at lower educational levels. -- Employment ; fertility ; childcare ; parental leave …

In this article we study the relationship between workers' remittances and fertility rate of the remittance receiving … country. We identify two main channels by which remittances transfers affect fertility. First, migrants may adopt and later … level of social norms (including fertility preferences) that is transmitted from the migrant to the household. Second …

We explore the relation between fertility and the business cycle in Latin American countries taking advantage of the … existing cross-country and within-country differences in both fertility and macroeconomic conditions. First, we use a panel of … 18 nations for over 45 years to study how different labor market and economic shocks may have affected fertility. Second …

How do policies that ease the integration of immigrants shape their fertility decisions? We use a panel survey of … undocumented Venezuelan migrants in Colombia to compare the fertility decisions of households before and after the launch of an …

with the home country fertility norm, whereas the timing of the first two births is either unaffected or negatively …

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 …

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 …