have emphasized changes in the supply of technologies to control fertility, including abortion and birth control. In this … measure the effect of changes in the supply of fertility technologies on the number of children born. I estimate an increase … of fertility control supply restrictions on birthrates today. The importance of legal abortion in reducing 19th …

The historical fertility transition is one of the most important events in economic history. This study provides new … the sharp decline in fertility that took place in Britain beginning in that year. We then show that similar declines are … highlight the importance of changing social norms in the historical fertility transition and provide novel evidence showing that …

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 …