Many studies have documented a negative association between macroeconomic indicators and fertility in times of economic … the analysis on two datasets: the American Community Survey and the Fertility Supplement of the Current Population Survey …

This paper investigates whether and how regional social contexts influence fertility decisions of women living in … western Germany during the 1980s and 1990s. It is argued that regional opportunity structures as well as local patterns of … for the transition to the first and second child. The empirical analysis provides no evidence that fertility differentials …

-friendly occupations. We estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of fertility, occupational choice, and labor supply using detailed survey and … administrative data for Germany for numerous birth cohorts across different regions. We use this model to analyze both the male …-female wage gap as it evolves from labor market entry onward and the effect of pro-fertility policies. We show that a substantial …

data from Turkey and leveraging an education reform which increased mandatory schooling by three years, we find that the …

During World War I (1914–1918) the birth rate in France fell by 50%. The corresponding deficit of births is estimated … at 1.4 million, while military losses are estimated at 1.4 million too. Thus, the fertility decline doubled the … demographic impact of the war. I construct a model of fertility choices where a household faces three shocks in a war: (i) an …

aspects. Comparing fertility surveys from France and Spain, we explore whether late first-time mothers, who have fewer … difference in France. These results hold after controlling for cohort effects, but are only partly explained by a time squeeze … effect. Different normative ages at first birth by education and birth cohort explain the educational gap in the likelihood …

other parts of Germany. The European Fertility Project, the most influential study of the European fertility transition …The decline of human fertility that occurred in Europe and North America in the nineteenth century, and elsewhere in … fertility in that German kingdom in the nineteenth century. Bavaria's fertility transition was later and less dramatic than in …