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 …

Economic demographers have long analyzed fertility cycles. This paper builds a foundation for these cycles in a model … of fertility choice with dynastic altruism and aggregate shocks. It is shown that under reasonable parameter values …, fertility is pro-cyclical and that, following a shock, fertility continues to cycle endogenously as subsequent cohorts enter …

We argue that one major cause of the U.S. postwar baby boom was the rise in female labor supply during World War II. We … develop a quantitative dynamic general equilibrium model with endogenous fertility and female labor force participation … decisions. We use the model to assess the impact of the war on female labor supply and fertility in the decades following the …

We estimate the effect of fertility on female labor force participation in a cross-country panel data set using … abortion legislation as an instrument for fertility. We find a large negative effect of the fertility rate on female labor … persistent over time giving an effect among older women. We present a simulation model of the effect of fertility reduction on …

the downward trends in family formation and fertility worldwide, and for a slowdown in the rates of savings and economic …

examines the relationship between population change and economic development in particular regions of the world: East Asia …, combined with reduced fertility and increases in the working-age population, have contributed to economic growth in some areas … of the developing world …

to re-examine the effects of population growth and fertility on economic …

aggregate income change is mixed. We analyze economic growth and fertility change in the developing world over six decades …Despite being key to theories of economic growth and the demographic transition, evidence on how fertility responds to …, using data on 2.3 million women from 255 surveys in 81 countries. We find that fertility responds differently to …