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 …

-selective abortions and have the lowest fertility. Women with less education have substantially higher fertility and do not appear to use … sex selection. Predicted lifetime fertility for high-education women declined more than 10% between 1985-1994, when sex …This paper addresses two main questions: what is the relationship between fertility and sex selection and how does …

variation in the crisis, focusing on women who were already pregnant when the downturn began. We find that the number of girls …

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 …, we do find a positive fertility effect, suggesting son preference in fertility among this group. This interpretation is …

, April 2020, saw a large contraction in employment for both men and women, where more men lost jobs in absolute terms …. Employment has recovered by August 2020 for men. However, for women, the likelihood of being employed is 9.5 percentage points … (employment), unpaid work (time spent on domestic work) and incomes, this paper examines the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on …

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 … important in explaining the division of labor in the home, often given as a cause for the gender wage gap. Indeed, as fertility …

Over the past four decades, the Hindu women in India most likely to use sex-selective abortions—well-educated women … see cases that reverse the traditional spacing pattern, with some women with no sons having longer birth intervals than … those with sons. Those least likely to use sex-selective abortions—less-educated women in rural areas—still follow the …