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 …

effects of schooling on the fertility of women under the age of 45. This is due to the application of methods to an … completed fertility had increased from its all time low in the nineteen seventies. …

Over the past decades, due to a combination of declining fertility rates and rising life expectancies, most … the future. This paper investigates the relationship first between fertility rate and infant mortality rate and second … overall economic activity and the labor market on the bivariate relationship between fertility and mortality rates, the …

This note reviews and evaluates Tasiran's (1995) claim that estimated female wage effects on Swedish fertility dynamics …

This study is the first attempt at placing the analysis of fertility in a temporal dynamic framework in the case of a … developing Asian economy such as Thailand by binding the relationship between fertility and its determinants within a … factor in bringing fertility down in the longer term cannot be denied. However, in the short to longer term, our findings …

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 …

This paper presents a dynamic model of fertility decisions in which children serve as an incomplete insurance good. The … number of children. It contributes to the understanding of the negative relation between fertility and education, shows why … parents may demand children even if the return is negative, and explains why fertility might rise with increasing income when …

For modeling complete female fertility we propose a zero-and-two-inflated count data model, which accounts for a … data on complete fertilities for a sample of Swedish women. The preferred specification for Swedish fertility data is the …