fertility rates are higher, the elderly do not appear to have lower life evaluations when they live with children; such living …

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

countries reduce fertility or improve socio-economic outcomes. Despite suggestive associations, disagreement persists because … independently later in life. Although family planning explains only about 10% of Colombia%u2019s fertility decline, it appears to … have reduced the otherwise substantial costs of fertility control and may be among the most effective development …

This article presents causal evidence on the impact of fertility on women’s subjective well-being using quasi …. I further establish that the positive impact of fertility on subjective well-being can be explained by related increases …

Focusing just on the fertility aspects of the Easterlin hypothesis, this paper offers a critical assessment - rather … than just a selective citation - of the extensive fertility literature generated by Easterlin, and a complete inventory of … fertility, but is less clear regarding the source(s) of differences in material aspirations, and suggests that the observed …

Effects of sex preference on investments in children`s human capital, bequests and fertility are studied, with and …

In this paper we look at a panel of OECD aggregate fertility and labor market data between 1970 and 1995 and we report … some striking recent developments. Total Fertility Rates (TFR) were falling and Female Participation Rates (FPR) were … framework of standard neoclassical models of fertility and labor supply adapted to macro data, as in Butz and Ward (1979). …

A model of fertility choice is studied in which the utility of parents depends on how much they consume, on how many … more limited sense than in the much discussed dynastic fertility model presented by Becker and Barro (1988). The concept of … the dynamic behavior of fertility are strikingly similar in both models. JEL classification: J13, J11, D90. …

We review existing approaches to the specification and estimation of dynamic microeconomic models of fertility. Dynamic … fertility models explain the evolution of fertility variates over the life-cycle as the solution to a dynamic programming model … models of lifetime fertility. JEL classification: J13, C41, C61 …