, fertility and children's living circumstances during 1990-2014. On average, trade shocks differentially reduce employment and … reduce marriage and fertility. Consistent with prominent sociological accounts, these shocks heighten male idleness and …

This paper investigates the effect of a large economic shock on marriage and fertility choices. I exploit the 1990's … important driver of changes in fertility outcomes of young women. Changes in women's employment opportunities are not a mediator … for the effect of trade exposure on fertility. There is no evidence of changes in marriage rates across regions exposed to …

cohabitation. While there was no change in overall fertility rate, marital fertility declined, and there was an increase in out …

administrative vital statistics, we find that birth control clinics accounted for 5.0-7.8% of the overall fertility decline until …

evidence that import competition affected fertility decisions. The results highlight the role of gains from joint consumption …

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

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 …

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. …