This paper investigates the causal relationship between women's education and fertility by exploiting variation … schooling on fertility. Each additional year of schooling led to a reduction in fertility, a delay in sexual activity, marriage …

fertility on parental investments and on women's labour supply that use twin births to instrument fertility will tend to be …

adolescent pregnancy rates are high. Little empirical evidence exists concerning the relationship between teen fertility and the … of fertility and labor market outcomes, we instrument the timing of first birth using young women's community …

over the business cycle. We used mass layoffs to estimate the causal effects of involuntary job loss on fertility in the … estimator was employed. We find that the extent to which job displacement had adverse effects on fertility depended on the …

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

benefits on fertility. While generally the reform increased child benefits, the exact amount of the increase varied by … household income and the number of children. We use these heterogeneities to identify their causal effects on fertility in a … fertility effects for higher as opposed to lower income couples deciding on a second birth. …

fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is achieved by exploiting variation in the supply-side's incentives to … estimates show that a non-planned CD at parity one decreases life cycle fertility by almost 17 percent. This reduction in … fertility translates into a temporary increase in maternal employment. …

headship and raised fertility. In light of the substantial increase in immigration, we examine this question separately for … lower fertility. Thus, by the 2008-2013 period, any apparent son preference among natives in their fertility decisions …, we do find a positive fertility effect, suggesting son preference in fertility among this group. This interpretation is …