A life cycle model of fertility based on the quantity-quality model of fertility successfully explains changes in … completed fertility in a period in which completed fertility first fell and then rose. This model furthermore accurately … predicts the timing and level of the subsequent peak in completed fertility. Regressions based on Easterlin's relative economic …

generation influences the educational attainment of their children. To address this question we use Swedish population data on … attenuated. Nevertheless, we do find that children who share the same birth order and gender as their parents attain slightly …

In 2007, approximately one in five children in Zambia lived with an HIV positive adult. We identify the effect of adult … antiretroviral therapy (ART) availability at scale on children's educational outcomes by combining data on the expansion of ART … the availability of ART increased the likelihood that children in households with HIV positive household heads started …

Beginning in the mid 1980s and extending through the early to mid 1990s, a substantial number of women and children … Health Statistics, we estimate fertility responses to these eligibility expansions. We measure changes in state Medicaid … had a statistically discernible effect on fertility …

This paper examines the effect of a nationwide healthcare reform implemented in Turkey on women's fertility decisions … clinics, called Family Health Centers, on a walk-in basis. Although reducing fertility was not specified among the goals of …'s position is to encourage fertility behavior and discourage birth control practices among women at prime childbearing ages …

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 …