This paper considers the implications of the financing of government services to children when fertility decisions are … biased away from the socially preferred result. The bias results in higher fertility rates and lower economic growth rates …

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 …

This paper examines the interaction between decisions on divorce and fertility. The analysis generates two major … implications. Firstly, it complements the existing literature on endogenous fertility to explain why population growth and economic … development leads to a simultaneous increase in divorce rates and decrease in fertility rates. …

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). …

. The emphasis on women`s employment as a determinant of low fertility has to be supplemented by an examination of the …

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the causality between female labor supply and fertility in the presence of … female labor supply and fertility and suggest interesting causal chains among the system variables. Causality effects are …

We develop an intra-household bargaining model to examine the feedback effect of household fertility decisions on … interactions, i.e., the fertility choices by the other couples in society. We show the presence of multiple equilibria in fertility … outcome: one equilibrium characterized by patriarchal society with a high fertility rate, and another in which women are …

Cointegration methods are employed to investigate relations among total fertility, female wages, labor force … are identified as a fertility and a labor supply equation. All covariates enter into these relations with significant … coefficients and theoretically plausible signs. Innovation analysis shows that both fertility and female labor force participation …