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 …

developing countries. This paper presents a theoretical model which integrates micro-level decision making about fertility and …

fertility, mortality, human capital and intergenerational mobility, looking for structural breaks associated with the French … village. We find that the fall in fertility preceded the rise in education by several decades. Demographic change is plausibly …

U.S. fertility rose from a low of 2.27 children for women born in 1908 to a peak of 3.21 children for women born in … boom and generated a rise in women's human capital, ultimately leading to a decline in desired fertility for subsequent … associated with a rise in fertility for women born between 1921 and 1940, with a rise in college and high school graduation rates …

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 …

The 1960s ushered in a new era in U.S. demographic history characterized by significantly lower fertility rates and … evidence that it accelerated the post-1960 decline in marital fertility …

advancements in household technology from 1940 to 1960 account for this large increase in fertility. We present new empirical … evidence that is inconsistent with this claim. Rapid advances in household technology began long before 1940 while fertility … fertility rates from 1940 to 1960; and the correlation between children ever born (measured at ages 41 to 60) and access to …