Only a few rich nations are currently at replacement levels of fertility and many are considerably below. We believe … that changes in the status of women are driving fertility change. At low levels of female status, women specialize in … household production and fertility is high. In an intermediate phase, women have increasing opportunities to earn a living …

1985 to 1996 period at each stage of the fertility decision tree, including sexual activity, contraception, pregnancy …

estimates of the effects of fertility on female labor supply few of them have adequately addressed the problems of simultaneity … inherent in these choices. In this paper, we use exogenous variations in fertility due to twin births to measure the impact of …

state abortion reforms had a negative impact on teen marriage, teen fertility, and teen out- of-wedlock childbearing. The … teen marriage effects are largest and most precisely estimated for white women while the teen fertility and out …-of-wedlock childbearing effects are largest and most precisely estimated for black women. The relatively modest fertility and marriage …

Using data from the 1970 and 1980 Censuses, we examined the fertility of immigrant women from the Middle East, Asia …, Latin America and the Caribbean where fertility rates averaged in excess of 5.5 children per women during the period of … immigration to the U.S. Perhaps the most interesting finding of this study is that immigrants from these on average high fertility …

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 …

A strong and negative correlation between married women's labor force participation and fertility has been witnessed in … fertility behaviors in urban Japan. Using the recently published 1980 Population Census of Japan, we have estimated a … simultaneous-equation model of married women's labor force participation and fertility in urban Japan. Our model shows very …

It is the main purpose of this paper to examine in detail the pattern of fertility fluctuations in the United States … since the Second World War and to define, with some precision, the questions these patterns raise for students of fertility …