explanations concerning the low fertility levels in developed countries. This study examines the role of the outsourcing of … household labor and of childcare responsibilities in reducing the incompatibility of women’s roles and in increasing fertility …

This paper analyzes the relationship between children’s day care and fertility in Germany. First, different modes of … analysis does not reveal any statistically significant effect of childcare availability on fertility. We conclude that the …

family arrangements on fertility behavior and childcare usage. …

complete fertility histories of women as well as longitudinal information of firm-specific characteristics where these women … fertility behavior. Women who are employed in female-dominated firms have substantially higher first, second and third birth …

examine the importance of social interactions in fertility outcomes by assessing family members’ scope of influence on their … fellow kin’s fertility behavior. With the unique KASS genealogical dataset from eight countries in Europe, we study the … effects of family members’ fertility outcomes on individual fertility to assess the presence and the extent of inter …

A fundamental reversal of the traditional fertility-development relationship has occurred in highly developed countries … so that further socioeconomic development is no longer associated with decreasing fertility, but with increasing … fertility. In this paper, we seek to shed light on the mechanisms underlying this reversal by analyzing data from 1975 to 2008 …