Fertility has a strong biological component generally ignored by economists. Using the UK Biobank, we analyze the …

Fertility has a strong biological component generally ignored by economists. Using the UK Biobank, we analyze the …

, male health improvements delay the transition and the take-off because ceteris paribus they raise fertility. According to …

growth. By contrast, male health improvements delay the transition and take-off because ceteris paribus they raise fertility …

, male health improvements delay the transition and the take-off because ceteris paribus they raise fertility. According to …

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 …

Though the negative correlation between fertility and development has been long acknowledged, it is challenging to … estimate the causal effect of female labor force participation (FLFP) on fertility. We use a novel instrument for estimating … fertility. We find large effects on fertility and mothers’ age: increases in FLFP can explain at least 42% of the reduction in …

woman can only imperfectly control her fertility. Dynamics in the model are captured by several forms of state and duration …