administrative vital statistics, we find that birth control clinics accounted for 5.0-7.8% of the overall fertility decline until …

administrative vital statistics, we find that birth control clinics accounted for 5.0-7.8% of the overall fertility decline until …

administrative vital statistics, we find that birth control clinics accounted for 5.0 7.8% of the overall fertility decline until …

children increases. In these advanced economies the negative impact on fertility deriving from the fact that fewer pregnancies … are needed to get a boy is more than compensated by the positive effect on fertility deriving from the greater stability …

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 …

not a strictly binding constraint. To investigate whether such adjustments could apply to fertility, we estimate the … fertility cost of temperature shocks by shifting conception month. This dynamic adjustment helps explain the observed decline in … on our analysis of historical changes in the temperature-fertility relationship, we conclude air conditioning could be …

licenses can affect undocumented migrants' fertility decisions. Using a differencein- differences strategy based on temporal …

19th century in the United States. We construct new measures of fertility changes and measures of railroad access at the … county level from 1850 - 1890. We are able to document market-access-induced changes in fertility due to both extensive … margins (shifts in occupations with different average fertility rates) and intensive margins (changes in fertility within each …