Fertility rates significantly fell over the last decades in Latin America. In order to assess the extent to which these … microdata from national household surveys from seven Latin American countries. We find that changes in fertility rates were … fertility implied smaller families and hence larger per capita incomes. Lower fertility also fostered labor force participation …

may have unintended consequences for fertility. We use panel data from experimental CCT programmes in three Latin American … fertility by between 2 and 4 percentage points. The CCT programmes in the two other countries, Mexico and Nicaragua, did not … have the same unintended incentives for childbearing, and in these countries we found no net impact on fertility …