Using a rich survey data collected in the southern part of the Philippines, this paper aims to study the effect of …

We use a panel dataset from Bangladesh to examine the relationship between fertility and the adoption of electricity … of electricity reduces fertility, and this impact is more pronounced when the household already has two or more children … the optimal number of children but not necessarily current fertility behavior if the optimal number has not yet been …

particularly relevant to policies for dealing with the gender pay gap and below-replacement fertility rates, both thought to be …

One effect of Southern Europe's rapid fertility decline is the emergence of a positive cross-country correlation … between women's labor force participation and fertility across developed countries, despite the continuing negative … how men's participation in home production can explain the positive relationship between fertility and women's labor force …

We develop a new directed-search model of fertility and marriage, and apply it to two empirical problems: the rise in … data, to explore the impact of marital prospects on the fertility decisions of unmarried women. We find that the decline …

equilibrium response, in a life-cycle matching model, of marriage hazards to war-time fertility and male-mortality shocks. Our …