This chapter reviews the literature on the causal effects of policies on fertility. It focuses on evidence from … experiments and quasi-experiments in low fertility contexts, including studies from Europe, Northern America, Oceania and Asia … insurance, and financial incentives such as child transfers. Childcare expansions increase completed fertility. Financial …

In this paper I study the causal relationship between fertility and female labor supply using census data from 14 Latin …-balanced family (mixed-sex children) is exploited as a source of exogenous variation in fertility. Although OLS estimates suggest a … sibling sex composition on fertility. The noisy and imprecise IV estimates for Latin America in the second-stage can be …

Over the last two decades Indonesia has experienced a signifcant decline in fertility rates and substantial increases … changes in fertility. The empirical analysis is performed using annual data from the national household survey Susenas for the …. Therefore, reductions in fertility rates seem to have led to two opposing effects that contributed to aggregate levels of female …

. This is not explained by differential fertility by social class over the cycle. Ability itself, as measured at age 10 …

research proposal on analyzing a causal relationship between fertility and female employment using Propensity Score estimates …

system with discrete endogenous variables depict a woman whose fertility and economic decisions were predominantly based on …

Declining maternal fertility desire has been recognized as a key factor in understanding China’s sharp drop in realized … fertility. Using results from a nationally representative survey, this paper presents the first causal evidence on the relation … between maternal education and fertility desire in China. Our triple-difference strategy exploits the staggered implementation …

no effects on second-order fertility. While the reform slightly changes the selection of mothers, this has little impact …