This paper investigates how fertility responds to changes in the price of a marginal child and in household income. We … construct a large, individual-level panel data set of married Israeli women during the period 1999-2005 that contains fertility … subsidy for infra-marginal children). We find a significant and positive price effect on fertility: the mean level of marginal …

China, we find interesting interactions between fertility and migration decisions in various counterfactual experiments with … migration equilibrium framework with rural agents heterogeneous in skills and fertility preferences. We then establish and … characterize a mixed migration equilibrium where high-skilled rural agents with low fertility preferences always migrate to cities …

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 …