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

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

decisions of a couple regarding fertility and allocation of resources for the healthcare of their children are made within a …This paper examines one avenue through which female autonomy impinges on fertility and child mortality in developing … countries. A simple model is set out in which couples are motivated to have children for old age security purposes. The …

completed schooling and risk of a nonmarital birth. Using a 27-year span of panel (PSID) data for U.S. children, we find that …

effects of a parental disruption (divorce or death of a father) on the labour market performance of children when they reach … adulthood. The NCDS is a longitudinal study of all children born during the first week of March 1958 in England, Scotland, and …

effects of schooling on the fertility of women under the age of 45. This is due to the application of methods to an … have not. Completion status and the desired number of children are used to infer characteristics of the optimal programme … completed fertility had increased from its all time low in the nineteen seventies. …

This paper develops and estimates an empirical model of the interplay between fertility and economic development. Using … three percent. In addition, because families with low levels of human capital choose to have more children, income per … interplay between fertility and output obtained from single cross-country regressions are biased downward because that method of …