declines in fertility of about 17%. Household data from 1996 confirm that this decline in surviving fertility persisted for … nearly two decades. Women in program villages also experienced other benefits: lower child mortality, improved health status … Bangladesh have many dimensions extending well beyond fertility reduction, which do not appear to dissipate after two decades. …

China and India, two Asian countries that experienced a rapid decline in fertility since the middle of the twentieth …. Moreover, our analysis shows that India, where the fertility decline emerged as a consequence of societal and economic … century, are the focus of this paper. Although there is no doubt that lower fertility levels have many positive effects on the …

the lowest fertility rates in Europe. However, they differ in the level of public support for families and the role of … impact of supportive networks on intentions to have a second child. Analyses based on data from the 'Generations and Gender …

Academic women in Austria and Germany have extraordinarily high final levels of childlessness of 45-60%, as documented … by prior research. This study investigates how female scientists' fertility behaviour relates to their childbearing … Sciences (n=196). It comprises women aged 25-45 who work in different scientific fields in Austria. Female scientists aged 40 …

the sample. Up to now, very little was known about the fertility behaviour of academic women in Austria, but also in other …The 'Generations and Gender Survey (GGS)' is an important data source for studying the dynamics of families and family … among female scientists in Austria. In total, 247 women up to the age of 45 years who applied for a scholarship at the …

subsequent pregnancy. We construct monthly duration and order-specific fertility rates and parity progression ratios to study … women affected by changing leave regulations. The extension of parental leave from one to two years in 1990, which created … an incentive for women to have their subsequent child within 26 months, led to an immediate and marked increase in second …

. The paper estimates the effect of mothers' program exposure on fertility and children's time allocation. The results show … that while the program was effective in reducing fertility, it had no significant impact on children's school enrollment …

We study the effect of child care costs on the fertility behavior of Swedish women and find that reductions in child … care charges influence fertility decisions, even when costs are initially highly subsidized. Exploiting the exogenous … costs on fertility in a context in which child care enrolment is almost universal and the labor force participation of …

portion of the gender wage gap is explainable by realized and expected fertility and that the long-run effect of policies … unearned wages (as women drop out of the labor market), loss of human capital, and selection into more child …-friendly occupations. We estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of fertility, occupational choice, and labor supply using detailed survey and …