importantly, we also show for the first time that selection into fertility is the main driver for the previously observed …

explain fertility behavior. We study parental happiness trajectories before and after the birth of a child using large British …. This pattern is consistent with the fertility behavior emerging during the second demographic transition and provides new … insights into low and late fertility. …

This paper investigates the effect of earnings and employment opportunities on pre-marital fertility. Using data from a … sample of British women born in 1970, we estimate an independent competing risks hazard model of fertility and cohabitation … decisions. Our results show that individual earnings opportunities are negatively related to pre-marital fertility but do not …