fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a decline …

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by …

We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel … teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the German case. We find that teenage fertility is associated with … aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports countercyclical teenage fertility. …

their periods of uncertainty, moreover, these countries have experienced sharply falling fertility rates. Some have argued … its fertility. In view of the results, we argue that an options based theory is perhaps a richer analytical paradigm for a … discussion of fertility decisions in a rapidly changing environment than the traditional Beckerian theory. -- falling fertility …

marriage and motherhood. -- abortion ; contraception ; fertility ; marriage …

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 …

Scholars have been examining the relationship between fertility and unemployment for more than a century. Most studies … find that fertility falls with unemployment in the short run, but it is not known whether these negative effects persist … period 1975 to 2010, we analyze both the short and long-run effects of unemployment on fertility. We follow fixed cohorts of …