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 …

-preferring fertility behaviors and investments in girls. …

-friendly occupations. We estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of fertility, occupational choice, and labor supply using detailed survey and …-female wage gap as it evolves from labor market entry onward and the effect of pro-fertility policies. We show that a substantial … portion of the gender wage gap is explainable by realized and expected fertility and that the long-run effect of policies …

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 …

This paper addresses two main questions: what is the relationship between fertility and sex selection and how does … show that falling fertility intensifies use of sex selection, leading to use at lower parities, and longer spacing after a …-selective abortions and have the lowest fertility. Women with less education have substantially higher fertility and do not appear to use …

in existing surveys that frustrate a more nuanced inquiry into employment and fertility outcomes. Analysts and … questions that elicit retrospective histories of contraception and fertility for similar approaches to employment history, job …

Three important interconnected spheres shape women’s lives in Tunisia: marriage, fertility and agency over their lives … decisions women and their husbands make vis-à-vis procreation, along with fertility correlates such as age and education level …