The demographic transition --the move from a high fertility/high mortality regime into a low fertility/low mortality … transitions. It also produces a correlation between the speeds of fertility transition and increases in schooling similar to the …

advancements in household technology from 1940 to 1960 account for this large increase in fertility. We present new empirical … evidence that is inconsistent with this claim. Rapid advances in household technology began long before 1940 while fertility … fertility rates from 1940 to 1960; and the correlation between children ever born (measured at ages 41 to 60) and access to …

We analyze the effect of fertility on income per capita with a particular focus on the experience of Europe. For … European countries with below-replacement fertility, the cost of continued low fertility will only be observed in the long run …. We show that in the short run, a fall in the fertility rate will lower the youth dependency ratio and increase the …

The 1960s ushered in a new era in U.S. demographic history characterized by significantly lower fertility rates and … provides new evidence that it accelerated the post-1960 decline in marital fertility …

Using 1995-2011 Current Population Survey and 1970-2000 Census data, we find that the fertility, education and labor … by the immigrant generation's levels of these variables, with the effect of the fertility and labor supply of women from … evidence that suggests our findings for fertility and labor supply are due to at least in part to intergenerational …

Only a few rich nations are currently at replacement levels of fertility and many are considerably below. We believe … that changes in the status of women are driving fertility change. At low levels of female status, women specialize in … household production and fertility is high. In an intermediate phase, women have increasing opportunities to earn a living …