presence of conflicting family goals within a couple, and show that male scarcity (a decrease in the male to female sex ratio … 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 …

population of Mexico and exploit presumably exogenous variation in family size induced by biological fertility and infertility …We investigate how fertility and demographic factors affect migration at the household level by assessing the causal …

with 7.7 - 12.5% higher incidence of fertility discontinuation among women without a son. This son-preferring behaviour is …

of compulsory education from 6 to 9 years on females' education, marriage, and fertility outcomes in Thailand. Using data … their fertility to after-school years. We also document heterogeneity and show that the fertility effects are stronger for …

Purpose: The Albanian migration has always reflected a family character, be that before 1945 when Albania was not yet … of the family has been very important in making decisions regarding migration and answering questions from why to how to … family and kinship on decisions regarding return migration, the re-adjustment process, remigration or transnational life …

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

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