research on the relationship between fertility and women's labour force participation. It surveys methods used to obtain causal … across the lifecycle and across successive cohorts; and of recognizing that women's choices over both fertility and labour … health technologies have muted the familycareer tradeoff primarily by allowing women to time their fertility, policy has not …

We review the foundations of the economic development-contraception nexus, focusing on the pathways through which … development and contraception transitions over time and across geographies. We briefly examine the evidence of the role of … fertility, both desired and realized, as a central pathway through which the relationship has been historically theorized and …

Large differences in fertility between women with high and low levels of education suggest that schooling may have a … direct impact on knowledge and use of contraception. We investigate this issue using information on women in Mexico. In order … females' schooling beyond 6th grade increases their knowledge of contraception during their reproductive years and increases …

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 …

work effort, fertility, and the demographic transition. And it affects total factor productivity by constraining or …

in the Journal. Fertility naturally plays an important role in population economics. Its size has decreased significantly … from the 1900s. Long time-series regarding fertility and basic trends in Germany are documented and analyzed. We identify … three different explanatory approaches for the decline in fertility, according to which the various articles of the Journal …

We provide evidence that lower fertility can simultaneously increase income per capita and lower carbon emissions …, eliminating a trade-off central to most policies aimed at slowing global climate change. We estimate the effect of lower fertility … on carbon emissions accounting for the fact that changes in fertility patterns affect carbon emissions through three …

There is longstanding debate in population policy about the relationship between modern contraception and abortion … contraception and abortion. This finding has important implications for public policy and foreign aid, suggesting that an effective …