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 …

Previous research on sex-selective abortions has ignored the interactions between fertility, birth spacing, and sex … selection, despite both fertility and birth spacing being important considerations for parents when deciding on the use of sex … selection. This paper presents a novel approach that jointly estimates the determinants of sex-selective abortions, fertility …

fertility. It builds a model in which industries differ in the extent to which they use female relative to male labor and … fertility. This is because female wages and therefore the opportunity cost of children are higher in those countries. The paper … demonstrates empirically that countries with comparative advantage in industries employing primarily women exhibit lower fertility …

transformation away from the agricultural sector, female education, and fertility rates. These facts are consistent with …

considers a country in Sub-Saharan Africa and finds that parental gender preferences do affect fertility behavior and shape …