between women's labor force participation and fertility. The economics of fertility has entered a new era because these … some cases reversed, and the cross-country relationship between women's labor force participation and fertility is now …In this survey, we argue that the economic analysis of fertility has entered a new era. First-generation models of …

This paper examines the effect of a nationwide healthcare reform implemented in Turkey on women's fertility decisions …'s position is to encourage fertility behavior and discourage birth control practices among women at prime childbearing ages … clinics, called Family Health Centers, on a walk-in basis. Although reducing fertility was not specified among the goals of …

The vast majority of China's fertility decline predates the famous One Child Policy - and instead occurred under its … predecessor, the Later, Longer, Fewer (LLF) fertility control policy. In this paper, we first study LLF's contribution to marriage … and fertility behavior, finding that the policy reduced China's total fertility rate by about 0.9 births per woman …

declines in employment. This paper provides a comprehensive study of recent trends in the fertility of college-graduate women …Observers have argued about whether highly-educated women are opting out of their careers and for families. If so, it … is natural to expect fertility to increase and, insofar as children are associated with lower employment, further …

Early fertility is a key barrier to female human capital attainment in sub-Saharan Africa, yet contraceptive take …

low-income women. Accounting for 2020's reductions in access to contraception and the economic slowdown, our results … predict a modest decline in births of 1.1 percent in 2021 for low-income women. Further accounting for reductions in access to … abortion implies that birth rates may even rise for low-income women. These results also suggest that already economically …

Americans and women with lower education. Given that being born to unprepared parents significantly affects children's outcomes … unintended fertility, we find that intergenerational mobility is significantly lower than that in the standard model. In a policy … in family planning access alone can account for 20% of the racial gap in upward mobility. Helping women fulfill their …

took place in the dispersion of fertility among these women: the percentage of women with, say, seven or more children …Over the past century fertility behavior in the United Stated has undergone profound changes Measured by cohort … fertility the average number of children per married woman had declined from about 5.5 children at the time of the Civil War to …

on a small scale, could alter incentives surrounding fertility. Using synthetic control and difference …-in-differences models to account for confounding factors and unobserved heterogeneity, we model the effect of income on fertility by … increased fertility and reduced the spacing between births, particularly for females in the 20-44 year age group. Our results …