We examine the stability of preferences over time using panel data from Kenya on fertility intentions, realizations …

United States, Kenya, and Uganda. The existing evidence shows consistent positive impacts on school participation in the …

Observers have argued about whether highly-educated women are opting out of their careers and for families. If so, it … declines in employment. This paper provides a comprehensive study of recent trends in the fertility of college-graduate women …; and study the period from 1940 to 2006. In contrast to most existing work, we find that college graduate women are indeed …

Why has the expansion of women's economic and political rights coincided with economic development? This paper … investigates this question, focusing on a key economic right for women: property rights. The basic hypothesis is that the process … their daughters. The model predicts that declining fertility would hasten reform of women's property rights whereas legal …

Beginning in the mid 1980s and extending through the early to mid 1990s, a substantial number of women and children … fraction of women aged 15 to 44 who were eligible for Medicaid coverage for a pregnancy increased on average by 24 percentage …

Changes in childbearing affect almost every aspect of human existence. Over the last fifty years, American women have … literature linking them to changes in childbearing and women's economic outcomes …

This paper examines the effect of a nationwide healthcare reform implemented in Turkey on women's fertility decisions …-in-differences estimation strategy. Our estimates indicate that the FMP significantly reduced childbearing among both teenagers and women ages …-planning services. However, the patterns in which the program effect has evolved over time differs between the two groups of women in a …