How does a negative labor demand shock impact fertility? I analyze this question in the context of the East German … fertility decline after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. I exploit differential pressure for restructuring across East …. Thus, the demand shock did not only depress the aggregate fertility level but also changed the composition of mothers. My …

How does a negative labor demand shock impact individual-level fertility? I analyze this question in the context of the … East German fertility decline after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Exploiting di erential pressure for restructuring … an impact on completed fertility. …

increase in fertility rates, particularly for second births among married and older women, providing suggestive evidence of an … increase in completed fertility. Second, we find an increase in overall female employment, likely due to the desire to qualify …

cohabitation. While there was no change in overall fertility rate, marital fertility declined, and there was an increase in out …

evidence that import com-petition affected fertility decisions. The results highlight the role of gains from joint consumption …

evidence that import competition affected fertility decisions. The results highlight the role of gains from joint consumption …

I study how bias in agricultural technological change affects labor market opportunities and fertility in a modern … of female labor into other sectors. Further, this technology adoption increased fertility, due to increases in overall … market opportunities or contribute to fertility decline, unless substitution effects are negative and sufficiently large …

This paper investigates the interrelated dynamics of employment, cohabitation and fertility for German women and men … invest in partner-specification capital in order to reduce the likelihood of splitting up. -- Employment ; Fertility …

evidence that import competition affected fertility decisions. The results highlight the role of gains from joint consumption …