earnings, employment, marriage prospects, potential spousal characteristics, and fertility. We find that students perceive …

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

This paper explains how household formation rules affect the fertility and labour supply of women in the Former Soviet … households are shown to have substantially lower subsequent fertility from those whose first child is female. Where households … are generally nuclear, male first borns do not reduce subsequent fertility. Middle-aged women in more patrilocal contexts …