China's household saving rate has increased markedly since the mid-1990s and the age-savings profile has become U … that rising income uncertainty and pension reforms can account for over half of the increase in the urban household savings … accompanied by a substantial increase in income uncertainty. Interestingly, the permanent variance of household income remains …

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

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

In this chapter we revisit the relationship between income and fertility. There is overwhelming empirical evidence that … fertility is negatively related to income in most countries at most times. Several theories have been proposed in the literature …

household production and fertility is high. In an intermediate phase, women have increasing opportunities to earn a living … outside the home yet still shoulder the bulk of household production. Fertility is at a minimum in this regime due to the … positively correlated across high income countries. The trend in men's household work suggests that the low fertility countries …

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

Health and Retirement Study (HRS). In particular, we investigate the influence of aging and health shocks on a household …

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 …

critical for understanding the relationship between aggregate fertility and household savings. First, we document that parents … aggregate fertility on household savings … household savings. Then, we construct an OLG model that parametrically matches the PE empirical evidence. Finally, we extend the …