Are fertility responses to local unemployment homogenous across sub-demographic groups? This paper investigates how … changes in local unemployment rates affect household fertility decisions in England while taking sub-demographic differences … on the current period fertility. Using the Labor Force Survey and Birth Statistics data from the Office for National …

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. …

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

Portugal is characterised by a noteworthy decline in fertility, which is a phenomenon that requires some intervention … given the costs, namely economic and political, associated with it. Notwithstanding the downward trend in fertility, a … as they may be manipulated by a demographic policy leading to an increase in fertility. …

fertility using U.S. Census data over the period 1940-2000. This correlation is not spurious, nor does it reflect the tendency … results reflect the sorting of married couples across metropolitan areas on desired fertility. The relationship between the … unit price of living space and fertility in fact tends to be more negative for households that have moved recently. However …

This study explored how social pressure related to parental preference for the sex of their children affects fertility … related to giving birth to a son led to high fertility in the pre-war generation; however, fertility was not influenced by …

children as old-age economic security, discouraging fertility. In particular, this fact may explain the contemporaneity of the … political economy research these effects have been ignored, as the fertility choice is usually considered exogenous. This paper … pension systems, because as the family structure becomes weaker the fertility decreases, thus reducing the profitability of …

This paper estimates the impact of schooling on the timing of marriage and early fertility using the 2003 Turkish … schooling on marriage and early fertility persists beyond the completion of compulsory schooling for an important duration. In …

fertility. The major finding through the random effects approach is that the social trust increases the fertility rate. A 1 …% rise in the trust rate leads to an increase in fertility by 0.01 points. The results presented here suggest that in …