household wealth, reduced child mortality, and female basic education are crucial for fertility reductions. Yet, our analysis …Despite the recent economic growth in many countries on the African continent, the region has seen a slow fertility … transition. In this study, we explore whether the lack of structural economic change can explain this slow fertility transition …

Twin births are often used to instrument fertility to address (negative) selection of women into fertility. However …, twin-IV estimates will tend to be upward biased. This is pertinent given the emerging consensus that fertility has limited …

implies that estimates of impacts of fertility on parental investments and on women's labour supply that use twin births to … instrument fertility will tend to be downward biased. This is pertinent given the emerging consensus that these relationships are …

health shocks negatively affect child human capital, including health, education, and socioemotional skills. Compensating …

higher order births. Fertility falls strongly when a firstborn child is male. Still, there is only mixed evidence that …

The paper explores the relationship between religiosity and fertility among Catholics in Spain, thereby answering the … question whether the two parallel trends of dramatic drops in fertility and in religiosity are inter-related. It looks at … respondent's mass attendance when the respondent was a child (nine levels); Catholic education during childhood (yes/no). The …

The economic theory of fertility choice builds predominantly on the unitary model of the household, in which there is a … bear on fertility choice, and we point out promising future directions for this line of research …

) on fertility among reproductive-age women. We find that IU reduces the number of children born, with more pronounced … effects among those with a moderate level of education, those aged 16â 19, rural residents, and those who are married. These … gender roles, a reduction in the importance placed on ancestral lines, deteriorated health and reduced fertility preferences …

In this survey, we argue that the economic analysis of fertility has entered a new era. First-generation models of … fertility choice were designed to account for two empirical regularities that, in the past, held both across countries and … across families in a given country: a negative relationship between income and fertility, and another negative relationship …