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 …

using data on police reports of family violence on Sundays during the professional football season. Controlling for location …

In this survey, we argue that the economic analysis of fertility has entered a new era. First-generation models of … fertility choice were designed to account for two empirical regularities that, in the past, held both across countries and … across families in a given country: a negative relationship between income and fertility, and another negative relationship …

unintended fertility, we find that intergenerational mobility is significantly lower than that in the standard model. In a policy …

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 … took place in the dispersion of fertility among these women: the percentage of women with, say, seven or more children …

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 …

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

The historical fertility transition is one of the most important events in economic history. This study provides new … the sharp decline in fertility that took place in Britain beginning in that year. We then show that similar declines are … highlight the importance of changing social norms in the historical fertility transition and provide novel evidence showing that …