We provide evidence that lower fertility can simultaneously increase income per capita and lower carbon emissions …, eliminating a trade-off central to most policies aimed at slowing global climate change. We estimate the effect of lower fertility … on carbon emissions accounting for the fact that changes in fertility patterns affect carbon emissions through three …

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 …

failure that may lead to inefficiently low equilibrium fertility and therefore to a need for government intervention. The …) model with fertility choice and altruism, and model ownership by introducing a minimum constraint on transfers from parents … transfer floor is binding, fertility choices are inefficient. We show how this inefficiency relates to dynamic inefficiency in …

Prior to the famous One Child Policy, China's total fertility rate declined by more than 50% during the 1970s - one of … the most rapid sustained fertility declines documented in modern history. Coinciding with this transition was China …'s contribution to fertility and fertility strategies favoring sons, we find that the campaign i) reduced China's total fertility rate …

This paper examines a possible connection between China's massive rural to urban migration and high chemical fertilizer … use rates during the late 1980s and 1990s. Using panel data on villages in rural China (1987-2002), we find that labor out … forms of water pollution, suggesting that industrialization has induced pollution in China both directly and through its …

household choice of children's quantity versus quality. The setting is in Anhui Province, China over the 13th to 20th centuries …, providing a means to test whether incentives for acquiring education affected fertility decisions. Employing an … this negative relationship between fertility and education disappeared with a fall in the return to education due to the …

critical for understanding the relationship between aggregate fertility and household savings. First, we document that parents … perceive children as an important source of old-age support and that, in partial equilibrium (PE), increased fertility lowers … aggregate fertility on household savings …

affects fertility in China. China has deep concerns with both population size and female employment, so the relationship …Data on 2,355 married women from the 2006 China Health and Nutrition Survey are used to study how female employment … prospects affect fertility. Then a well-validated instrumental variable isolates this effect. Female employment reduces a …

-carrier parents. Further, since a number of Asian countries, China in particular, have high hepatitis B carrier rates, Oster (2005 … ratios. To test this, we collected data on the offspring gender for a cohort of 67,000 people in China who are being observed … explain skewed sex ratios in China …