-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 …

One of the most commonly cited studies on the effect of child subsidies on fertility, Whittington, Alm and Peters (1990 …), 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 …

two births in families with at least two children, to estimate the effect of additional children on parents' labor supply … differences in the ages of children whose birth was caused by the instruments. The estimates imply that the labor supply …

Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. We model the implications for … with birth order, since mothers near or beyond their desired total fertility are more likely to make use of the …

The Barro-Becker model is a simple intuitive model of fertility choice. In its original formulation, however, it has … not been very successful at reproducing the changes in fertility choice in response to decreased mortality and increased … due to an implicit assumption that number and utility of children are complements, which is a byproduct of the high …

experiment which is utilized to examine fertility behavior. Multivariate models controlling for state and, in the NLSY, personal …

A large literature exists on the impact of family structure on children's outcomes, typically focusing on average … children of married parents. We propose that the gains to marriage from a child's perspective depend on a mother's own level of … school completion or avoiding poverty at age 25, the “marriage premium for children” is highest for children of mothers with …