declines in fertility of about 17%. Household data from 1996 confirm that this decline in surviving fertility persisted for … nearly two decades. Women in program villages also experienced other benefits: lower child mortality, improved health status … Bangladesh have many dimensions extending well beyond fertility reduction, which do not appear to dissipate after two decades. …

unearned wages (as women drop out of the labor market), loss of human capital, and selection into more child …-friendly occupations. We estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of fertility, occupational choice, and labor supply using detailed survey and …-female wage gap as it evolves from labor market entry onward and the effect of pro-fertility policies. We show that a substantial …

the causal effect of family size on completed educational attainment, fertility, and earnings. For the purposes of this …

We study the effect of child care costs on the fertility behavior of Swedish women and find that reductions in child … care charges influence fertility decisions, even when costs are initially highly subsidized. Exploiting the exogenous … costs on fertility in a context in which child care enrolment is almost universal and the labor force participation of …

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source …

The current study finds that societies which historically engaged in plough agriculture today have lower fertility. We …, like women, are relatively less useful in the field. The plough requires strength and eliminates the need for weeding, a … task particularly suitable for women and children. This in turn generates a preference for fewer children, lowering …

We analyse various pathways through which access to electricity affects fertility, using a pseudo-panel of Indonesian … results suggest that the subsequent effects on fertility account for about 18 to 24 percent of the overall decline in the … fertility rate, depending on the specification. A key channel through which electrification affects fertility is increased …

this change. I find that women facing high unemployment rates in their mid-twenties tend to restrict their fertility below … environment where a family lives. During the last two decades the gap between the number of children women prefer and their actual … fertility has widened in Spain. The paper uses the 1985 and 1999 Spanish Fertility Surveys to study whether the tightening of …

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

sterilized. I find a large use of sterilizations as a contraceptive method between 1995 and 1997: more than 36% of women that … used a contraceptive method were sterilized. I also find that a large percentage of women were not adequately informed … about sterilizations: only 35% of sterilized women was given complete information, that is, that they will have no more …