This paper documents how the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. affected birth rates. We review the economics of fertility …

mortality, fertility, and the economy in the short and medium run. The role of nonpharmaceutical interventions in shaping those …

to August 2022 to examine the childbearing response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Although fertility rates declined in 2020 … reversal in declining U.S. fertility rates since 2007 and was most pronounced for first births and women under age 25, which …

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 …

decision making to human fertility behavior. Theoretical emphasis has been given to the effects of the costs of parental tine … time, especially the value of the wife's time. One important objection to static theories of fertility is their failure to … theoretical and econometric model of fertility behavior within a sequential stochastic framework. The principal contribution of …

Fertility decisions are often made by partners who may disagree. We develop a model in which an initial gender gap in … ideal fertility prevents effective communication between spouses about the costs of childbearing incurred by women. This … mechanism is likely to further widen the spousal disagreement over fertility in environments where maternal health risk is high …

over time, own (adult) health and inputs into the production of own health, fertility, and child quality or well …