According to the conventional theory of the demographic transition, mortality decline has represented the major trigger … for fertility decline and eventually sustained economic development. In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the HIV/AIDS epidemic … has had a devastating impact on mortality, by dramatically reversing, in high HIV-prevalence countries, the long …

This paper examines the effect of national income on the total fertility rate (children born per woman). We estimate … the effects on fertility of shocks to national per capita income using plausibly exogenous variations in oil price shock … negative and significant effect on the total fertility rate. Looking at the entire spectrum of the fertility distribution, the …

health, self-rated health to mortality. Our analytic sample includes about 8,000 Chinese persons age above 60. Using the …

enforcement measures to identify their impact on undocumented immigrants’ fertility. Using data from the 2005 through 2014 … an intensified fear of deportation, on likely unauthorized women’s fertility. Given immigrants’ critical contribution to …

In this paper, we conduct an empirical study of the effect of uncertainty on fertility. The precautionary motive for … saving predicts that an increase in uncertainty increases saving by reducing both consumption and fertility. We use a new …. The empirical findings indicate that uncertainty shocks decrease the fertility rate. This evidence is robust to different …

The growth of self-employment and in particular gig work may explain part of the declining fertility rates observed in … many countries. This study examines this question drawing on longitudinal data to compare women’s fertility, proxied by … structural aspects of work types, as fertility-related social protection there does not discriminate between self-employment and …

the increase in the fertility rate (quantity) and the decrease in the educational outcome of children (quality), is highly …

The availability of child-care services has often been advocated as one of the instruments to counter the fertility … increased the supply of child-care services. In this paper we examine if the flow of immigrants as actually affected fertility … child-care services by immigrants has positively affected native fertility choice. …

licenses can affect undocumented migrants' fertility decisions. Using a differencein- differences strategy based on temporal …