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 …

development. The leave policies can also influence women's fertility choices, as well as household specialization and husbands …

This paper examines the impact of male casualties due to World War II on fertility and female employment in the United … counties in the U.S. experienced a Baby Boom following the war, we find that the increase in fertility was lower in high … fertility, we provide evidence that county male casualties are positively related to 1950s female employment and household …

This paper discusses research on the relationship between fertility and women's labour force participation. It surveys … both fertility and labour force participation are subject to multiple constraints. We observe that, while technological … fertility, policy has not achieved as much as it might. …

can lower the marginal cost of a child and raise fertility. We test this hypothesis using longitudinal data from … effects, we find that drought occurring in the agricultural season increases the fertility of young women living in …. Analyzing mechanisms, we find that drought does not affect common factors of high fertility such as marriage timing. It operates …

This paper studies the effects of import competition from China and Eastern Europe (EE) on the fertility decisions of … import competition to longitudinal individual data to examine individual fertility. Two separate measures of import exposure … remarkably during the panel years. Fixed-effects instrumental variable (FEIV) estimation results show that individual fertility …

in the 1980s to empirically examine the causal impact of women's education on fertility in rural China by difference …