Over the past century fertility behavior in the United Stated has undergone profound changes Measured by cohort … fertility the average number of children per married woman had declined from about 5.5 children at the time of the Civil War to … took place in the dispersion of fertility among these women: the percentage of women with, say, seven or more children …

Over the past century fertility behavior in the United Stated has undergone profound changes Measured by cohort … fertility the average number of children per married woman had declined from about 5.5 children at the time of the Civil War to … took place in the dispersion of fertility among these women: the percentage of women with, say, seven or more children …

We estimate the effects of college education on female fertility - a so far understudied margin of education, which we … instrument by arguably exogenous variation induced through college expansions. While college education reduces the probability of … becoming a mother, college-educated mothers have slightly more children than mothers without a college education. Unfolding the …

The relationship between education and fertility among individuals systematically varies by the education of the … education-fertility nexus and on associations between men's involvement with domestic work and fertility, this study … investigates the role of gendered domestic work divisions for the educational pairing-fertility relationship in couples. Using data …

We study the short- to medium-run effects of starting a career on a fixed-term contract on subsequent fertility … as well as fertility behavior. Our main results are: Women (i) tend to postpone first birth due to fixed-term employment …

We study the short-to medium-run effects of starting a career on a fixed-term contract on subsequent fertility outcomes … well as fertility behaviour. Our main results are: Women (i) tend to postpone their first birth due to fixed …

We study the short- to medium-run effects of starting a career on a fixed-term contract on subsequent fertility … well as fertility behaviour. Our main results are: Women (i) tend to postpone their first birth due to fixed …

We study the short- to medium-run effects on subsequent fertility of starting a career with a fixed-term contract. We … about their fertility. Our main results are the following. Women (i) tend to postpone first birth due to fixed …

connection between fertility and labor force participation on the future demographic and economic development in Germany. For … development on growth, mediated through incompatibility of fertility and participation. It is argued that this incompatibility …

This paper examines the effects of a major change in German parental transfer system on fertility. I use the largely …-order fertility. Given the recent introduction, this paper evaluates short-run responses by using data from the German Microcensus …-run fertility responses are less pronounced and vary with potential earnings. The heterogeneity is in line with the structure of …