estimates of the effects of fertility on female labor supply few of them have adequately addressed the problems of simultaneity … inherent in these choices. In this paper, we use exogenous variations in fertility due to twin births to measure the impact of …

A strong and negative correlation between married women's labor force participation and fertility has been witnessed in … fertility behaviors in urban Japan. Using the recently published 1980 Population Census of Japan, we have estimated a … simultaneous-equation model of married women's labor force participation and fertility in urban Japan. Our model shows very …

The main issue of this paper is to study the sign and direction of causality between two demographic variables --the … fertility rate and the infant mortality rate - by using time series methodology. It is shown that a fall in fertility will … decrease infant mortality below its normal level. It is also shown that fertility and infant mortality are not mutually …

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 …

generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply but, for the second generation, also examines fertility and education. We … of immigrants to native levels of schooling, fertility, and labor supply across generations …