Survey of Youth 1979 are used and three different methods for measuring the probability of marriage and divorce are employed …. Consistent with theoretical predictions, married women are found to work more when they face a high probability of divorce. This … relationship holds both over an individual's life-cycle and across people with different inherent risks of divorce. The second …

economic development through its impact on productivity, fertility and human capital investment.In the second chapter of this … counteracting disease).In the third chapter of this dissertation, I model the impact of child disease burden on fertility and human … capital investment. The fertility response to a decline in child mortality depends on the morbidity effect of the disease, the …

Over the demographic transition, declining fertility leads to rising support ratios and consumption during the first … fertility falls to preserve the initial gains? Using a new cross-national data set, we estimate that a constant share of life … number of children. We draw from the literature an estimated elasticity of labor productivity with respect to human capital …

drain induces parents to have more high and less low educated children. Under certain conditions fertility may either rise …How do high and low skilled migration affect fertility and human capital in migrants' origin countries? This question … is analyzed within an overlapping generations model where parents choose the number of high and low skilled children they …

overlapping generations model which accounts for endogenous fertility and education. Parents choose the number of children they …This paper analyzes the effects of skilled migration and remittances on fertility decisions at origin. We develop an … want to raise and decide upon how many children obtain higher education. Only high skilled individuals migrate with a …

the change in behavior of fertility rate at business cycle frequencies in the United States between the 1970s and 1990s … and shows how the cyclical and secular properties of fertility can be used to distinguish among several proposed theories … that account for the rise in labor force participation of married mothers. The model, in which households make fertility …

The birth-interval approach to the study of fertility reflects two aspects of the process of reproduction: (1) the … quantum of fertility as indicated by the proportion of women who move to the next higher parity; and (2) the tempo of … fertility, as measured by the time it takes to make the transition for those women who continue reproduction. This paper focuses …

persistence of high fertility in sub-Saharan Africa. Although fertility behaviour depends on multiplicity of factors, childhood … mortality affect fertility are well understood, the empirical evidence has been inconsistent. Thus, the unsettled nature of the … link between childhood mortality and fertility was a major motivation for this study. Methodologically, the paper examines …

children of educated workers are more likely to become educated, this fertility differential increaases the proportion of … unskilled workers, reducing their wages, and thus their opportunity cost of having children, creating a vicious cycle. A model … fertility differential between the educated and uneducated is greater in less equal countries, consistent with the model …

This paper develops multivariate methods for analyzing (1) effects of socioeconomic variables on the total fertility … rate and its components and (2) effects of socioeconomic variables on the trend in the total fertility rate and its … components. For the multivariate methods to be applicable, the total fertility rate must be calculated from parity progression …