China, we find interesting interactions between fertility and migration decisions in various counterfactual experiments with … 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 …

village. We find that the fall in fertility preceded the rise in education by several decades. Demographic change is plausibly …Using a unique, comprehensive household-level dataset for a single French village from 1730 to 1895, we study the … fertility, mortality, human capital and intergenerational mobility, looking for structural breaks associated with the French …

The current study finds that societies which historically engaged in plough agriculture today have lower fertility. We … fertility …

We assess quantitatively the effect of exogenous reductions in fertility on output per capita. Our simulation model … quantitative macroeconomic theory. We apply the model to examine the effect of a change in fertility from the UN medium-variant to …

that demonstrates both policies' effects on fertility rates, I find suggestive evidence that individuals' access to …

fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a …

is natural to expect fertility to increase and, insofar as children are associated with lower employment, further … declines in employment. This paper provides a comprehensive study of recent trends in the fertility of college-graduate women …. We study fertility at a range of ages; consider both the intensive and extensive margins, explore a range of data sets …

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 …

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 …