paper provides a perspective on population as it impacts the labor market and poverty. It then discusses issues of fertility … rates that result in various scenarios of fertility and population growth. …

children do not reflect the true extent of son preference in high fertility countries such as Pakistan, where the success of … preference on fertility behaviour in Pakistan, accurate measurement of the forms this gender bias can take is necessary to … appropriately gauge the influence of son preference on the fertility outcomes. The limited capacity of existing measures to …

We investigate the direct and long-run effects of fertility on employment in Europe estimating dynamic models of labor … supply under different assumptions regarding the exogeneity of fertility and modeling assumptions related to initial …

and dissolution, fertility, female time allocation, education, wages, and wealth. Using a theoretical framework based on …

higher-order fertility. I use a differences-in-differences design to investigate the introduction of a German law in 2001 …

childbearing age, son bias in stated fertility preferences has weakened and there is an emerging preference for gender balance. We … analysis, we show that in contrast to stated fertility preferences, actual fertility decisions are still shaped by son …

a gender wage gap, associated with lower female labor force participation rates and higher fertility. This paper … presents a growth model where saving, fertility and labor market participation are endogenously determined, and there is wage … increase in fertility. We find that for several countries a large fraction of the actual difference in output per capita …