to estimate the effect of education on fertility and child mortality. Time and region varying exposure to the school … between husband and wife. We show that female education is a stronger determinant of age at marriage and early fertility than …

The current study finds that societies which historically engaged in plough agriculture today have lower fertility. We … fertility …

We assess quantitatively the effect of exogenous reductions in fertility on output per capita. Our simulation model … quantitative macroeconomic theory. We apply the model to examine the effect of a change in fertility from the UN medium-variant to …

that demonstrates both policies' effects on fertility rates, I find suggestive evidence that individuals' access to …

fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a …

is natural to expect fertility to increase and, insofar as children are associated with lower employment, further … declines in employment. This paper provides a comprehensive study of recent trends in the fertility of college-graduate women …. We study fertility at a range of ages; consider both the intensive and extensive margins, explore a range of data sets …

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 … sons and daughters, having few or no older brothers results in earlier weaning. Third, these gender effects peak as mothers …

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 … intertemporal elasticity of substitution (IES) typically assumed in the fertility literature. We show that, not only is this …

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 …