the quantity-quality tradeoff to later work linking the economics of fertility to the theory of economic growth. …This paper reviews Gary Becker's contributions to the economic analysis of fertility, from his 1960 paper introducing …

fertility, both desired and realized, as a central pathway through which the relationship has been historically theorized and … independently from fertility decline. Finally, we assess the state and quality of evidence of these relationships and propose …

This paper explores gendered patterns of time use as an explanatory factor behind fertility trends in the developed … division of labor within the home leads to more children, both at the household (micro) and country (macro) levels. After … decades of unprecedented fertility decline in the industrialized world, only a handful of countries in the West exhibit …

This study discusses fertility trends and variation in countries that have completed the transition from high to around …-replacement fertility in the 1950s-1980s - especially in Europe, East Asia and North America - and summarises the key findings that are … relevant for the countries with a more recent experience of fertility declines towards replacement level. A central finding is …