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 …

them are childless when young and locate downtown. Estimating a dynamic model of fertility timing and within-city location … choices, we find delayed childbearing accounts for 52% of urban revival. The impact of changes in fertility choices is …

We use an econometric model of fertility and children’s activities to examine the causal effects of fertility on a … child’s activities taking the endogeneity of fertility into account. Our specification is nonlinear and simultaneous and … uses latent factors to allow for unobserved influences on fertility to affect a child’s activities. We apply maximum …

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in England and … Continental Europe, implemented between 1936 and 1975. We assess the causal effect of education on the number of biological … children and the incidence of childlessness. We find surprising results for Continental Europe: the additional education …