Many studies have documented a negative association between macroeconomic indicators and fertility in times of economic … the analysis on two datasets: the American Community Survey and the Fertility Supplement of the Current Population Survey …

headship and raised fertility. In light of the substantial increase in immigration, we examine this question separately for … lower fertility. Thus, by the 2008-2013 period, any apparent son preference among natives in their fertility decisions … reversal of the gender gap in college attendance beginning in the 1980s (Goldin, Katz and Kuziemko 2006), making girls more …

This paper examines the extent to which the Great Recession affected gender composition at birth. We focus on ethnic …

This paper analyzes the relationship between age-specific fertility, mortality and real wages in Sweden during the … demographic transition. We take an overlapping generations model of life cycle fertility and fit it to actual Swedish time …-series data over the past two and a half centuries. The model fits the data well, accurately portraying the total fertility …

important in explaining the division of labor in the home, often given as a cause for the gender wage gap. Indeed, as fertility … after China's 1980 one-child law. The results indicate that fertility in China declined by about 1.2-1.4 births per woman as … diminished leading to less division of labor in the home and a smaller gender wage disparity. Unlike other models of division of …

This paper explores gendered patterns of time use as an explanatory factor behind fertility trends in the developed … decades of unprecedented fertility decline in the industrialized world, only a handful of countries in the West exhibit … replacement fertility rates - around two children per woman. Paradoxically, birth rates are substantially lower in countries in …

lengthening in spacing, the standard fertility rates substantially overestimated how fast cohort fertility fell. Despite a … convergence, cohort fertility is still 10%–20% higher than the fertility rate and above replacement level for all but the best …

This paper examines the extent to which the Great Recession affected gender composition at birth. We focus on ethnic …

This paper explores gendered patterns of time use as an explanatory factor behind fertility trends in the developed … decades of unprecedented fertility decline in the industrialized world, only a handful of countries in the West exhibit … replacement fertility rates – around two children per woman. Paradoxically, birth rates are substantially lower in countries in …