The 1960s ushered in a new era in U.S. demographic history characterized by significantly lower fertility rates and … pill in this transition. Almost fifty years after the contraceptive pill appeared on the U.S. market, this analysis … provides new evidence that it accelerated the post-1960 decline in marital fertility …

behavior and contraceptive use. Evidence from this analysis suggests that the reduction in fertility associated with raising …

countries reduce fertility or improve socio-economic outcomes. Despite suggestive associations, disagreement persists because … paper provides new evidence on the role of contraceptive supply by exploiting the surprisingly haphazard expansion of one of … independently later in life. Although family planning explains only about 10% of Colombia%u2019s fertility decline, it appears to …

Over the past century fertility behavior in the United Stated has undergone profound changes Measured by cohort … fertility the average number of children per married woman had declined from about 5.5 children at the time of the Civil War to … took place in the dispersion of fertility among these women: the percentage of women with, say, seven or more children …

clinic access on abortions, births, and contraceptive purchases. In response to these policies, abortions to Texas residents …

administrative data to examine how reductions in access to reproductive health care during 2020 affected contraceptive efficacy among …

country using detailed data on women’s subjective probabilistic beliefs about contraception and contraceptive attributes … would only have modest effects on contraceptive use. Alternatively, increasing partners’ approval of methods, aligning … partners’ fertility preferences with women’s, and correcting women’s expectations about pregnancy risk absent contraception …

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