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 …

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 …

This paper investigates whether and how regional social contexts influence fertility decisions of women living in … western Germany during the 1980s and 1990s. It is argued that regional opportunity structures as well as local patterns of … for the transition to the first and second child. The empirical analysis provides no evidence that fertility differentials …

-friendly occupations. We estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of fertility, occupational choice, and labor supply using detailed survey and … administrative data for Germany for numerous birth cohorts across different regions. We use this model to analyze both the male …-female wage gap as it evolves from labor market entry onward and the effect of pro-fertility policies. We show that a substantial …

This article analyzes the negative side of involuntary integration in public education - its effect on whites. The … model shows that the flight from the integrated multicultural public schools to private education increases private … educational expenditures and decreases fertility among more affluent whites whose children flee. In contrast, among less …

data from Turkey and leveraging an education reform which increased mandatory schooling by three years, we find that the …

This article analyzes the negative side of involuntary integration in public education – its effect on whites. The … model shows that the flight from the integrated multicultural public schools to private education increases private … educational expenditures and decreases fertility among more affluent whites whose children flee. In contrast, among less …

During World War I (1914–1918) the birth rate in France fell by 50%. The corresponding deficit of births is estimated … at 1.4 million, while military losses are estimated at 1.4 million too. Thus, the fertility decline doubled the … demographic impact of the war. I construct a model of fertility choices where a household faces three shocks in a war: (i) an …