The 1960s ushered in a new era in U.S. demographic history characterized by significantly lower fertility rates and … provides new evidence that it accelerated the post-1960 decline in marital fertility …

behavior and contraceptive use. Evidence from this analysis suggests that the reduction in fertility associated with raising …

countries reduce fertility or improve socio-economic outcomes. Despite suggestive associations, disagreement persists because … independently later in life. Although family planning explains only about 10% of Colombia%u2019s fertility decline, it appears to … have reduced the otherwise substantial costs of fertility control and may be among the most effective development …

Over the past century fertility behavior in the United Stated has undergone profound changes Measured by cohort … fertility the average number of children per married woman had declined from about 5.5 children at the time of the Civil War to … took place in the dispersion of fertility among these women: the percentage of women with, say, seven or more children …

partners’ fertility preferences with women’s, and correcting women’s expectations about pregnancy risk absent contraception …

differential effects and find that access to the pill led to falls in short-term fertility rates for young women and led to … decreases in lifetime fertility at the intensive and extensive margins. The impacts of the pill on household characteristics are …