We study fertility responses to employment shocks. Using unique Hungarian administrative data that allow linking firm … fertility behavior. Women threatened by job displacement bring births forward to exploit dismissal protection, a strategy that …

can lower the marginal cost of a child and raise fertility. We test this hypothesis using longitudinal data from … effects, we find that drought occurring in the agricultural season increases the fertility of young women living in …. Analyzing mechanisms, we find that drought does not affect common factors of high fertility such as marriage timing. It operates …

We use miscarriage as a biological shock to fertility in order to estimate the causal impact of motherhood on labor …

How does a negative labor demand shock impact individual-level fertility? I analyze this question in the context of the … East German fertility decline after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Exploiting di erential pressure for restructuring … an impact on completed fertility. …

effect of postponing motherhood is identified using biological fertility shocks, namely the occurrence of miscarriages and … from that of total fertility. Our estimates suggest that delaying the first birth by one year raises the likelihood of …

The effects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on fertility in Africa remains ill understood. To align the contrasting findings … "quality" of offspring. According to this theoretical model, the overall impact of mortality shocks on fertility is … fertility impacts are conditional on income levels. We use African panel data to test the implications of the model, and find …