Scholars have been examining the relationship between fertility and unemployment for more than a century. Most studies … find that fertility falls with unemployment in the short run, but it is not known whether these negative effects persist … period 1975 to 2010, we analyze both the short and long-run effects of unemployment on fertility. We follow fixed cohorts of …

Since the seminal work of Becker, the dynamics of endogenous fertility has been based on the trade-off faced by parents … upstream, so as to keep fertility endogenous. We do that by adding a negative "sibship size effect" on human capital formation …, the possibility of a jump from a state with high fertility and low income to a state with low fertility and high income …

A large number of pairs of countries exhibit a dynamic pattern in which: (i) Fertility in both countries declines … across time; (ii) Initially one country has higher fertility and lower per-capita income compared to the other; (iii) In time …, as per-capita income converges, fertility rates in the poorer country become lower than in the richer one.This paper …

economic factors drive contraceptive adoption and change. We investigate the channels through which the relationship between … economic development and contraceptive dynamics are mediated. Using global data, we document the correlations between economic … fertility, both desired and realized, as a central pathway through which the relationship has been historically theorized and …

contains detailed information about contraceptive methods adopted in those years, with especial emphasis on sterilizations. I … sterilized. I find a large use of sterilizations as a contraceptive method between 1995 and 1997: more than 36% of women that … used a contraceptive method were sterilized. I also find that a large percentage of women were not adequately informed …

that used other contraceptive methods. We use data from the 2016 round of the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) for Peru … contraceptive method. There is also an important socio-demographic change in the incidence of sterilization, from women who are … electricity at home. There is not only no improvement in the information received by users of contraceptive methods with respect …

undesirable, and where there is imperfect fertility control, leading to involuntary childlessness/parenthood. Using an equivalent … consumption approach in the consumption-fertility space, we first show that the identification of the worst-off individuals is not … robust to how the social evaluator fixes the reference fertility level. Adopting the ex post egalitarian social criterion …

disturbances after childbirth. -- Fertility ; Lock-in effect ; Inequality ; Education …

A child-allowance system is to raise fertility beyond the individual optimum. The more heterogeneous the population …