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 …

is still largely unclear what caused them. This paper presents a new unified explanation of the fertility Boom-Bust that … the entry of the D-cohort is associated with increased births in the 1950s, while its retirement turned the fertility Boom … completed fertility of all cohorts involved. …

This study investigates how the changes in labour market conditions and economic growth affected fertility before and … temporal change and handling hierarchically structured data. Our findings show that fertility decline was strongly related to … unemployment increase and that this relationship was significant at all ages. Fertility responded to worsening economic conditions …

countries. This paper identifies factors from the literature – both cyclical and structural – that affect the fertility rate and … fertility rate (TFR) generally appears to be pro-cyclical, it has not rebounded with the recovery from the Great Recession. As a … result, the analysis decomposes the structural factors that affect fertility – race/ethnicity, education, religion, the …