household outcomes. We find that in cities with a larger kindergarten exposure, families significantly reduced fertility, with …. Households reduced fertility because kindergarten attendance increased returns to education, but it also led to higher …

the traditional agricultural economy to modern economic growth, household real income increases, fertility decreases, and … twin births, child sex composition, and family planning policies, to identify the causal effect of fertility on child …

education track attendance from the first to the second generation of immigrants. Second, we find that reduced fertility is …

education track attendance from the first to the second generation of immigrants. Second, we find that reduced fertility is …

A negative relationship between income and fertility has persisted for so long that its existence is often taken for … fertility between rich and poor. We show that the relationship between income and fertility has flattened between 1980 and 2010 … in the US, a time of increasing inequality, as high income families increased their fertility. These facts challenge the …

There has been much interest in how the provision of formal public day care influences fertility (e.g. Ermisch, 1989 …; Hank & Kreyenfeld, 2003; Rindfuss et al., 2010) but the implications of using informal sources of child care on fertility … investigated this relationship have generally found that grandparental care was associated with greater fertility, but most have …