Fertility rates have declined in all OECD countries throughout the last decades. Despite this common secular trend … Italy display lower fertility rates than France, the United Kongdom, and the Scandinavian countries. All countries use some …. Although these measures are mainly motivated by equity considerations, they will generally also have an impact on fertility. …

In this survey, we argue that the economic analysis of fertility has entered a new era. First-generation models of … fertility choice were designed to account for two empirical regularities that, in the past, held both across countries and … across families in a given country: a negative relationship between income and fertility, and another negative relationship …

fertility using a pre-registered synthetic difference-in-differences design applied to newly released provisional natality data …

We question the received wisdom that birth limitation was absent among historical populations before the fertility …-run effect of living standards on birth spacing in the three centuries preceding England's fertility transition. While the effect … England's historical leadership as a low population-pressure, high-wage economy. -- spacing ; birth intervals ; fertility …

We question the received wisdom that birth limitation was absent among historical populations before the fertility …-run effect of living standards on birth spacing in the three centuries preceding England’s fertility transition. While the effect …

parenthood. In a departure from existing studies we analyse increases in planned fertility separately from decreases; we conclude … that the determinants of increases in planned fertility are not simply equal and opposite to the determinants of decreases …