countries like Spain. At the same time fertility is relatively low in the most concerned countries whereas those in their … fertile phase experience high unemployment rates. Based on these facts we investigate how marriage and fertility decisions in … of the economic crisis on fatherhood. Over all countries we can observe that the fertility rate of employed women becomes …

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 …

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 …

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 …

fertility, abortion, and neonatal mortality are more common during an economic downturn, and play a significant role in …