between fertility, the age structure of the population and the age at first marriage of men and women. Within a simple two … single women in equilibrium. Using an extended version of the model to a finite number of periods and fertility data, I show …

, these results have important implications for marriage rates, fertility, housing markets and financial markets …

While a large body of literature focuses on how fertility affects female labour market participation, there are … relatively few studies that examine the effect of fertility on male labour market participation. Even if the burden of child care … falls mainly on women, an exogenous increase in fertility is likely to change the optimal allocation of time, therefore, the …

Many countries consider rising fertility through pro-family policies as a solution to the fiscal pressure stemming from … the final effects to the assumed target value and path of increased fertility. Since our study tries to quantify the … fiscal effects depend on the patterns of increased fertility …

-optimization model with sharecropping, endogenous fertility and status seeking. We show that tenant farming is the major obstacle to … escaping the Malthusian trap with high fertility and low productivity. A land reform provides peasant families higher returns … decreases fertility and increases productivity in agriculture in the short and long runs. The European demographic history …

Scholars have been examining the relationship between fertility and unemployment for more than a century. Most studies … find that fertility falls with unemployment in the short run, but it is not known whether these negative effects persist … period 1975 to 2010, we analyze both the short and long-run effects of unemployment on fertility. We follow fixed cohorts of …

the quantity-quality tradeoff to later work linking the economics of fertility to the theory of economic growth …This paper reviews Gary Becker's contributions to the economic analysis of fertility, from his 1960 paper introducing …

We set up an overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility to study pensions policies in an ageing economy … have negative effects on the fertility rate, thus exacerbating population ageing …

This paper presents new evidence on the causal relationship between fertility and female labor supply. We particularly … focus on how informal employment affects post-fertility labor supply behavior of mothers. We employ an instrumental variable …. We find that fertility causally affects female labor supply. After the first twin birth, female labor supply declines …