differ between women with college and postgraduate education. Likewise, black-white fertility differentials among women with … college and post-graduate education for birth cohorts 1931-1980. Our findings show a significant postponement of the first …A postponement of first births among college graduates, and increases in childlessness in the US are well documented …

patterns with regard to the completed fertility-intentions gap, most apparent for the childlessness gap. In addition, the gap …We study the aggregate gap between intended and actual fertility in 20 countries in Europe and the United States … data on completed or almost completed fertility in the same cohorts later in life when they were aged 40 and older. In …

We investigate women's fertility, labor and marriage market responses to large declines in child and maternal mortality … need to achieve their target number of children. This prompts fertility delay and labor market entry which, coupled with … wage or fecundity shocks, can result in childlessness. Consistent with these predictions, we find that reductions in child …

We investigate women's fertility, labor, and marriage market responses to large declines in child mortality in the U ….S. Fertility declined on the intensive margin as expected. However, despite the increasing value of having at least one child, a … larger share of women remained childless. We explain these findings with a new theory of fertility that includes fertility …

Many studies have documented a negative association between macroeconomic indicators and fertility in times of economic …' childlessness in the United States. We apply a difference-in-difference approach to the probability of childlessness in two pseudo … between the years 2007 and 2010 for the treatment group. We argue that an increase of childlessness at the age 37-39 is likely …