subsequent fertility …

Catholic countries of Europe pose a demographic puzzle -fertility is unprecedentedly low (total fertility=1.3) despite …. We use differential declines in service provision --measured by nuns/capita-- to identify its effect on fertility …) has no effect for Protestants, but predicts fertility decline for Catholics. The data suggest that service provision and …

childbearing on subsequent educational attainment, family structure, labor market outcomes and financial self-sufficiency. In …

estimated a logit model of married women's part-time employment and a fertility equation in the context of a simultaneous … interdependency between married women's decisions to work as part-time employees and their fertility in urban Japan …

In this paper it is proposed that high rural fertility in Latin America is a deliberate and rational adjustment to the … institution in much of Latin America, contains a set of powerful fertility inducements which are lost when households face a wage …-labor situation in agriculture or in cities. Thus, the rapid decline of rural fertility in the past decade in Latin America may be due …

While a large literature is interested in the relationship between family and labor supply outcomes, little is known … in beliefs about how future family outcomes are related to future labor supply. Methodological contributions come from an … longitudinal data, can potentially help address endogeneity issues arising in the estimation of the causal effect of family on …

This paper shows that globalization has far-reaching implications for the economy's fertility rate and family structure … competition lead to a shift towards family, with more parental leave and higher fertility as well as more marriages and fewer …- versus family choice as a major determinant of trade adjustment costs. While older workers respond to the shock rather …

: we examine new outcomes related to labor force participation, human capital, and family formation and we do not restrict … men's educational or family outcomes. The results are quite different for women: we find effects on both career and family …

are more likely to have met their husbands outside of family networks, they are less likely to get forced into marriage … against their consent, and they are less likely to agree that only a son can ensure the continuation of the family blood line …

affects fertility in China. China has deep concerns with both population size and female employment, so the relationship … prospects affect fertility. Then a well-validated instrumental variable isolates this effect. Female employment reduces a …