The paper analyzes the impact of an experimental maternal and child health and family-planning program that was … declines in fertility of about 17%. Household data from 1996 confirm that this decline in surviving fertility persisted for … Bangladesh have many dimensions extending well beyond fertility reduction, which do not appear to dissipate after two decades. …

The twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Gary Becker's path-breaking Treatise on the Family provides an … occasion to reexamine both the American family and family economics. We begin by discussing how families have changed in recent … been family functions and home production by government programs and market transactions. After discussing recent work in …

contraception or age-specific fertility. The dearth of long-run family planning experiments has led economists to consider …. Using these instrumental variables to estimate the effect of this exogenous variation in fertility on family outcomes …, economists discover these cross effects of fertility on family welfare outcomes tend to be substantially smaller in absolute …

the causal effect of family size on completed educational attainment, fertility, and earnings. For the purposes of this …A longstanding question in the economics of the family is the relationship between sibship size and subsequent human … family size due to twin births and preferences for a mixed sibling-sex composition, as well as ethnic differences in the …

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 …

-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 … portion of the gender wage gap is explainable by realized and expected fertility and that the long-run effect of policies …

The current study finds that societies which historically engaged in plough agriculture today have lower fertility. We … fertility. …

results suggest that electrification contributes substantially to the fertility decline. In a context in which family planning …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 …

family and of achieving preferred fertility. Temporary contracts work in the opposite direction. Findings are robust to the …Family size is the outcome of sequential decisions influenced both by preferences and by ongoing changes in the … environment where a family lives. During the last two decades the gap between the number of children women prefer and their actual …