This paper examines fertility and labor supply responses to a French policy reform that consisted in conditioning the …, the paper finds that restricting family allowance eligibility criteria decreases fertility. The results also highlight … supply. Auxiliary regressions show that at least part of the decline in fertility is due to timing effects, as the fertility …

employment and earnings of women, there is little evidence focusing on the post-communist region. This paper exploits the latest … towards women, as well as household decision-making as potential explanations. We find that small children decrease the … probability of female employment relative to women with no small children. In particular, women with two children aged one to six …

two years. We separate the incapacitation and human capital effects of education on fertility by exploiting a database …This paper examines the effects of an increase in the compulsory school leaving age on the teenage fertility of Roma … women, a disadvantaged ethnic minority in Hungary. We use a regression discontinuity design identification strategy and show …

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 … those not transitioning. The estimation of the year of onset of the fertility transition is followed by an econometric …

of compulsory education from 6 to 9 years on females' education, marriage, and fertility outcomes in Thailand. Using data …Increased education affects market and non-market outcomes. This paper investigates the causal impact of the extension … their fertility to after-school years. We also document heterogeneity and show that the fertility effects are stronger for …

past three decades and its effects on Pakistani women's fertility. We analyse a number of indicators and employ different …

sex ratio in World War II contributed to a lower decline in fertility and child mortality rates in postwar Japan. In … particular, the fertility rate would have fallen by an additional 12% and the child mortality rate by an additional 13% between …

effects, we find that drought occurring in the agricultural season increases the fertility of young women living in … women in agriculture but not men. It has no effect on the fertility of young women living in non-agricultural households, or … can lower the marginal cost of a child and raise fertility. We test this hypothesis using longitudinal data from …

focusing on the role of education. Female CUA is found to differ substantially across cohorts, with women from the younger … representative household survey for two cohorts of married women, I examine female CUA incidence and correlates in Bangladesh … cohort being far more likely to have complete autonomy over contraceptive use than women from the older cohort. Detailed …

in the 1980s to empirically examine the causal impact of women's education on fertility in rural China by difference …Using data from the China Family Panel Studies, this paper exploits the Compulsory Education Law of China implemented … results are also partly explained by more educated women preferring quality to quantity of children, placing a greater value …