Building on anthropological evidence, we develop a model of intra-household decision making on fertility and child …

Three profound changes - the mortality, fertility and contraception transitions - characterized the Victorian era in … their fertility target at no cost. The historical experience from Victorian England is at odds with this view of costless … fertility regulation. We incorporate costly fertility limitation into the Becker paradigm: in our story, the mortality …

Twin births are often used as an instrument for fertility in models investigating the impact of family size on labour … market and child outcomes. However, a large share of twin births (24% in our sample) are the result of fertility treatments … show that (a) mothers with and without fertility treatment are different, (b) twin births are still random after …

of an ageing population is to re-verse the demographic development by increasing the fertility rate. This is the subject … most se-verely affected by low fertility. Furthermore, different theoretical approaches are described which attempt to … affect fertility and that those findings are not always in line with economic theory. …

This paper analyzes the effects of job displacement on fertility using Finnish longitudinal employer-employee data … channels through which job loss affects fertility we examine also the effect on earnings, employment and divorce. The results … show that woman’s own job loss decreases fertility mainly for highly educated women. For every 100 displaced females there …