It is generally thought that both the demand for children and the cost of fertility control are major forces in … fertility decline. Most researchers find that family planning programs in developing countries, which lower the cost of … fertility control, play a small role in the fertility transition relative to other economic factors that affect the demand for …

population growth, an implication which is hard to see in the data. Here we integrate micro-founded fertility and schooling into … future economic growth - when fertility is going to be below replacement level in virtually all fully developed countries …

of fertility on household welfare at the micro level. In this paper we present an empirical analysis of the relationship … between household welfare and fertility for Indonesia - a country which has experienced unprecedented economic growth and … sharp fertility declines over recent decades. The focus of our paper is twofold: First, we introduce and apply propensity …

The relationship between education and fertility among individuals systematically varies by the education of the … education-fertility nexus and on associations between men's involvement with domestic work and fertility, this study … investigates the role of gendered domestic work divisions for the educational pairing-fertility relationship in couples. Using data …

"Underachieving" fertility desires is more common among women with higher levels of education and those who delay the … marriage postponement explains lower fertility among the highly educated, is not well understood. In this paper, we use data … and women, focusing on the role of union formation timing in achieving fertility goals over the life course. We expand on …

This paper discusses the construction of fertility intentions in contemporary Bulgaria and Hungary. It presents … empirical analyses of four types of fertility intentions: whether to have or not to have a first or a second child and if yes … transformations. Based on comparative survey data for women we find that that explanatory factors of fertility intentions differ …

Fertility rates have been falling persistently over the past 50 years in most developed countries around the world … negative effect of decreasing fertility on the aggregate human capital stock of a country is compensated for by increasing … education and health investments - both of which raise individual human capital. We find that declining fertility is not fully …

subsequent pregnancy. We construct monthly duration and order-specific fertility rates and parity progression ratios to study … rates or on period fertility trends. As in most cases analysed for other developed countries, the main effect of the policy … change was on the tempo of fertility, namely on the spacing of second and third births. …

by prior research. This study investigates how female scientists’ fertility behaviour relates to their childbearing …