the fertility and marital behavior in Germany, until recently a lowest-low fertility setting. We find that exposure to … greater import competition from Eastern Europe led to worse labor market outcomes and lower fertility rates. In contrast …, workers in industries that benefited from increased exports had better employment prospects and higher fertility. These …

The demographic transition --the move from a high fertility/high mortality regime into a low fertility/low mortality … transitions. It also produces a correlation between the speeds of fertility transition and increases in schooling similar to the …

, combined with reduced fertility and increases in the working-age population, have contributed to economic growth in some areas …

Fertility change is distinct from other forms of social and economic change because it directly alters the size and … composition of the next generation. This paper studies how changes in population composition over the fertility transition feed … back into the evolution of average fertility across generations. Theory predicts that changes in the relationship between …

Dramatic fertility swings over the last 100 years have been the subject of large literatures in demography and … economics. Recent research has claimed that the post-1960 fertility decline is exceptional enough to constitute a "Second … the fertility decline in the 1960s and 1970s to the earlier 20th century fertility decline, especially the 1920s and 1930s …

Using micro-data from 48 developing countries, I document a recent reversal in the income-fertility relationship and … century's end, both patterns had reversed. Consequently, income differentials in fertility historically raised average …

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 rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility …