Fertility rates have long been falling in many developed countries while educational attainment in these countries has … effects of education on these decreases in fertility. Specifically, we find that education “compresses” the fertility …

migration equilibrium framework with rural agents heterogeneous in skills and fertility preferences. We then establish and … characterize a mixed migration equilibrium where high-skilled rural agents with low fertility preferences always migrate to cities …, low-skilled with high fertility preferences always stay, and only an endogenously determined fraction of high …

-income countries. In doing so, it focuses on fertility outcomes (the number and timing of births), women's health and socio … programs may only explain a modest share of fertility decline in real-world settings (explaining 4-20% of fertility decline …

The Barro-Becker model is a simple intuitive model of fertility choice. In its original formulation, however, it has … not been very successful at reproducing the changes in fertility choice in response to decreased mortality and increased … intertemporal elasticity of substitution (IES) typically assumed in the fertility literature. We show that, not only is this …

Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. We model the implications for … with birth order, since mothers near or beyond their desired total fertility are more likely to make use of the …

experiment which is utilized to examine fertility behavior. Multivariate models controlling for state and, in the NLSY, personal …

This paper uses age-at-school-entry policies to identify the effect of female education on fertility and infant health …. We focus on sharp contrasts in schooling, fertility, and infant health between women born just before and after the … small, but possibly heterogeneous, effects on fertility and infant health. We argue that school entry policies manipulate …