The total fertility rate is well below its replacement level of 2.1 children in high-income countries. Why do women … choose such low fertility levels? We study how labor market frictions affect the fertility of college-educated women. We …-shift schedules increase the completed fertility of college-educated from 1.52 to 1.88. These reforms enable women to have more …

The total fertility rate is well below its replacement level of 2.1 children in high- income countries. Why do women … choose such low fertility levels? We study how labor market frictions affect the fertility of college-educated women. We …-shift schedules increase the completed fertility of college-educated from 1.52 to 1.88. These reforms enable women to have more …

The total fertility rate is well below its replacement level of 2.1 children in high-income countries. Why do women … choose such low fertility levels? We study how labor market frictions affect the fertility of college-educated women. We …-shift schedules increase the completed fertility of college-educated from 1.52 to 1.88. These reforms enable women to have more …

fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a decline …

fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a …

This paper explores the interaction between wage inequality and the marriage and fertility decisions of young women. We … fertility. We show how patterns of fertility timing in U.S. data can be explained by the incentives for fertility delay implied … women's wages and fertility timing and the changes over the past 40 years in married women's fertility timing and labor …

The demographic transition the move from a high fertility/high mortality regime into a low fertility/low mortality … and increasing speed of transitions. It also produces a strong correlation between the speeds of fertility transition and …

The demographic transition -the move from a high fertility/high mortality regime into a low fertility/low mortality … and increasing speed of transitions. It also produces a strong correlation between the speeds of fertility transition and …