Despite being key to theories of economic growth and the demographic transition, evidence on how fertility responds to … aggregate income change is mixed. We analyze economic growth and fertility change in the developing world over six decades …, using data on 2.3 million women from 255 surveys in 81 countries. We find that fertility responds differently to …

Despite being key to theories of economic growth and the demographic transition, evidence on how fertility responds to … aggregate income change is mixed. We analyze economic growth and fertility change in the developing world over six decades …, using data on 2.3 million women from 255 surveys in 81 countries. We find that fertility responds differently to …

over the business cycle. We used mass layoffs to estimate the causal effects of involuntary job loss on fertility in the … estimator was employed. We find that the extent to which job displacement had adverse effects on fertility depended on the …

total fertility rate and its potential determinants, across 17 high-income economies, where the ‘fertility rebound … fertility rate in selected 17 high-income economies. Second, it examines which factors hypothetically determine the fertility …