Many studies have documented a negative association between macroeconomic indicators and fertility in times of economic … the analysis on two datasets: the American Community Survey and the Fertility Supplement of the Current Population Survey …

show that female participation is positively affected by tertiary education at any age. But upper secondary education …

-preferring fertility behaviors and investments in girls. …

This paper explores gendered patterns of time use as an explanatory factor behind fertility trends in the developed … decades of unprecedented fertility decline in the industrialized world, only a handful of countries in the West exhibit … replacement fertility rates - around two children per woman. Paradoxically, birth rates are substantially lower in countries in …

decisions women and their husbands make vis-à-vis procreation, along with fertility correlates such as age and education level …Three important interconnected spheres shape women’s lives in Tunisia: marriage, fertility and agency over their lives …

-selective abortions and have the lowest fertility. Women with less education have substantially higher fertility and do not appear to use … sex selection. Predicted lifetime fertility for high-education women declined more than 10% between 1985-1994, when sex …This paper addresses two main questions: what is the relationship between fertility and sex selection and how does …

in existing surveys that frustrate a more nuanced inquiry into employment and fertility outcomes. Analysts and … questions that elicit retrospective histories of contraception and fertility for similar approaches to employment history, job …

data from Turkey and leveraging an education reform which increased mandatory schooling by three years, we find that the …