the effect of women’s schooling on completed fertility is not mediated through husband’s schooling but rather through age … of schooling on completed fertility, probability of being childless and age at first birth, using the within MZ twins … methodology. We find strong cross-sectional associations between schooling and the fertility outcomes and some evidence that more …

U.S. born women defined by their own state and year of birth, and relate their fertility to the unemployment rate …-run fertility of women in this age range by 6 conceptions per 1,000 women. When we follow these women to age 40, we find that a one …Scholars have been examining the relationship between fertility and unemployment for more than a century. Most studies …

first child raised fertility and increased the probability that the family was living without a father. We find that for our … associated with lower fertility, particularly for natives. Thus, by the 2008-2013 period, any apparent son preference in … fertility decisions appears to have been outweighed by factors such as cost concerns in raising girls or increased female …