involved in the legislative process), we show that an expansion in the welfare state increases the fertility, marriage, and … formation. Nevertheless, we also find that the welfare state decouples marriage and fertility, and therefore, alters the …

Ireland’s relatively late and feeble fertility transition remains poorly-understood. The leading explanations stress … Ireland to study fertility in Dublin and Belfast. Our larger project aims to use the extensive literature on the fertility … those used in previous studies of Irish fertility, and is the first from an urban area. We find considerable support for the …

In most western societies, marital fertility began to decline in the nineteenth century. But in Ireland, fertility in …. This paper investigates these claims by examining the marital fertility of Irish Americans in 1900 and 1910. We find that … Irish fertility patterns did not survive the Atlantic crossing. The Irish in America had smaller families than couples in …

In this paper we investigate how fertility decisions respond to unexpected career interruptions which occur as a … displacement reduces average fertility by 5 to 10% in both the short and medium term (3 and 6 years) and that these effects are … reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises because displaced workers undergo a …

Fertility and the provision of long-term care are connected by an aspect that has not received attention so far: both …'s fertility as well as their labor supply when young are affected by such policies. The overall effect can be decomposed into an … opportunity-cost effect and a consumption-smoothing effect that each impact fertility as well as labor supply in opposite …

We hypothesize that the timing of the fertility transition is an important determinant of comparative physiological …, economically and physiologically. Empirically, the timing of the fertility transition is strongly correlated with average body size …

This paper focuses on the role of the home country's birth rates in shaping immigrant fertility. We use the German … Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to study completed fertility of first generation immigrants who arrived from different countries …

. In contrast to studies for other developed countries, we find a significant negative effect of education on fertility …

In this paper we investigate how fertility decisions respond to unex- pected career interruptions which occur as a … job displacement reduces average fertility by 5 to 10% in both the short and medium term (3 and 6 years) and that these e … that the reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises be- cause displaced …

We examine the effect of joint custody on marriage, divorce, fertility and female employment in Austria using …