This article investigates the causal relationship between women's schooling and fertility by exploiting variation … year of schooling led to a reduction in fertility. An investigation of the underlying mechanisms linking schooling and … fertility finds that the decline in fertility is associated with an increase in labor market opportunity and a reduction in …

This paper examines the effect of fertility on parental labor force participation in a developing country in the … address the potential endogeneity in the fertility decision, the analysis exploits the Albanian parental preference for having …-section of parents with at least two children, the analysis finds a positive and statistically significant effect of fertility on …

annuities, or for a given level of annuitization, both increasing longevity and decreasing fertility should reduce the inherited … unequally distributed if aging is driven by a drop in fertility. In comparison, the effect of increasing longevity on their …

. Although fertility has risen since the 2007 introduction of the family policy package, which focused on stimulating second and … higher-order births, total fertility rates still remain significantly below replacement rate. Unlike some Western European … countries, low overall fertility in Russia can be explained predominantly by a high prevalence of one-child families, despite …

This study exploits a natural experiment to investigate the impact of land reform on the fertility outcomes of … pronatal property rights on fertility outcomes. By matching aggregated census data before and after the reform with … impact of the reform on fertility outcomes. The impact appears to be large. The study estimates that women in rural areas …

This paper estimates the impacts of secondary school on human capital, occupational choice, and fertility for young …

In Turkey, female employment and education are still relatively low, while fertility levels are high compared with … education and employment come along with important decreases in fertility. By mobilizing census and survey data, this paper … finds that fertility decreases are mainly caused by fewer transitions to a third birth. Graduate women participating in the …