policies that have had a statistically discernible impact on teen birth rates are declining welfare benefits and expanded …

Variation in tax policy presents an opportunity to estimate the responsiveness of fertility to prices. This paper … and cancellation. Furthermore, the incentive was available broadly, rather than to a narrow subset of the population as … studied in the literature on AFDC and fertility. This provides a unique opportunity to investigate heterogeneous responses. I …

at aiding families. The outcomes of interest are female employment, gender gaps in earnings and fertility. We begin with …

-term effects on U.S. fertility rates. I find that the introduction of family planning is associated with significant and persistent … reductions in fertility driven both by falling completed childbearing and childbearing delay. Although federally-funded family … planning accounted for a small portion of the post-baby boom U.S. fertility decline, the estimates imply that they reduced …

), claimed a large positive effect of child tax benefits on fertility using time series methods. We revisit this question in … do not find evidence that child tax benefits affect the level of fertility, we find some evidence of a short …One of the most commonly cited studies on the effect of child subsidies on fertility, Whittington, Alm and Peters (1990 …

but with a downward adjustment of benefits. Our computations show that early" retirement adjustment rules give strong … incentives to go on working until being eligible for a full" pension, even if mandatory complementary schemes soften incentives …

fertility, mortality, human capital and intergenerational mobility, looking for structural breaks associated with the French … village. We find that the fall in fertility preceded the rise in education by several decades. Demographic change is plausibly …