Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. We model the implications for … breastfeeding decisions and test the model's predictions using survey data from India. First, we find that breastfeeding increases … with birth order, since mothers near or beyond their desired total fertility are more likely to make use of the …

India's male-biased sex ratio has worsened over the past several decades. In combination with the increased … availability of prenatal sex-diagnostic technology, the declining fertility rate is a hypothesized factor. Suppose a couple …. This paper empirically measures the relationship between desired fertility and the sex ratio. Standard survey questions on …

plausibly random. Given a strong son-preference in India, parents tend to have more children if the first born is a girl. Our IV …

This paper studies the effect of mothers' education on fertility in a population with very low female labor force … large increase in schooling attainment triggered a sharp decline in completed fertility. We show that no other changes … convergence in fertility and schooling, changes in labor-force participation, age upon marriage, marriage and divorce rates, and …

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

This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and …

Economic demographers have long analyzed fertility cycles. This paper builds a foundation for these cycles in a model … of fertility choice with dynastic altruism and aggregate shocks. It is shown that under reasonable parameter values …, fertility is pro-cyclical and that, following a shock, fertility continues to cycle endogenously as subsequent cohorts enter …

issues, including female labor force participaiton, fertility, labor market regulation, redistribution, growth, and financial …

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 …