Large black-white fertility differences are a key feature of US demography, and are closely related to the broader … dynamics of US racial inequality. To better understand the origins and determinants of racial fertility differentials, this … paper examines fertility patterns in the period surrounding passage and implementation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which …

Fertility rates have long been falling in many developed countries while educational attainment in these countries has … effects of education on these decreases in fertility. Specifically, we find that education “compresses” the fertility …

Despite being key to theories of economic growth and the demographic transition, evidence on how fertility responds to … aggregate income change is mixed. We analyze economic growth and fertility change in the developing world over six decades …, using data on 2.3 million women from 255 surveys in 81 countries. We find that fertility responds differently to …

dependency ratio (DR), is currently about 0.64. In the immediate pre-WWII era it was even higher because Japan's total fertility ….44 in 1990. But further declining fertility and rising life expectancy caused the DR to shoot up after 1995.In this short … its DR because its fertility rate is low, its people are long lived and it has little immigration. Fertility is the …

affects fertility …

This article demonstrates the value of microdata for understanding the effect of wages on life cycle fertility dynamics …. Conventional estimates of neoclassical economic fertility models obtained from linear aggregate time series regressions are widely …. This article demonstrates, that when neoclassical models of fertility are estimated on microdata using methods that …

Fertility decisions are often made by partners who may disagree. We develop a model in which conflicting interests … to further widen the spousal disagreement over fertility in environments where maternal health risk is high and … complications - but only when the information is delivered to wives rather than husbands is this decline in fertility accompanied by …