Family planning is a critical issue in countries, particularly those in sub-Saharan Africa, where high fertility rates …

Economic factors are rather an obvious determinant of fertility, as also suggested by "Beckerian" theory. However …, culture is less tangible and less direct factor for fertility. In this paper, the main question is whether culture, as … suggested by "Synthesis" among other theories, is a determinant of fertility in culturally diverse Europe. Using panel-data for …

Based on a 1% sample of the German population, we study how fertility rates in the country of origin—a proxy for … cultural imprint—influence the fertility outcomes of first- and second-generation female immigrants. We use both total … fertility rates in the year of migration and a new measure of completed cohort fertility rates in the countries of origin as …

This paper examines the effects of an increase in the compulsory school leaving age on the teenage fertility of Roma … two years. We separate the incapacitation and human capital effects of education on fertility by exploiting a database …

This paper examines the effects that an increase in compulsory school-leaving (CSL) age has on the teenage fertility …

We study the effect of residential segregation on fertility for the socially excluded and marginalized Roma ethnic … minority. Using original survey data we collected in Serbia, we investigate whether fertility differs between ethnically …

Based on a 1% sample of the German population, we study how fertility rates in the country of origin — a proxy for … cultural imprint — influence the fertility outcomes of first- and second-generation female immigrants. We use both total … fertility rates in the year of migration and a new measure of completed cohort fertility rates in the countries of origin as …

This paper attempts to disentangle the direct effects of experience from those of culture in determining fertility. We … use the GSS to examine the fertility of women born in the US but from different ethnic backgrounds. We take lagged values … of the total fertility rate in the woman's country of ancestry as the cultural proxy and use the woman's number of …