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 …

equilibrium growth model with endogenous fertility and endogenous longevity under the threat of a deadly enduring infectious … the fertility response to the evolving epidemic conditions. …

mortality are important determinants of fertility decline, while per-capita GDP has probably worked in the opposite direction …This paper studies the dynamics of fertility in 180 countries in the period 1950ñ 2015 and investigates the … determinants of the onset of fertility transitions. The application of Phillips and Sulís (2007) test to fertility rates provides …

Study, we identify adults of childbearing age whose fertility was reduced. We find LLF exposure increases the likelihood of …

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

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 …