This paper aims to identify the causal effect of English language skills on education, health and fertility outcomes of … degrees, but do not affect child health and self-reported adult health. The impact of language on fertility outcomes is also … becoming a teenage mother, and decrease fertility. …

In this survey, we argue that the economic analysis of fertility has entered a new era. First-generation models of … fertility choice were designed to account for two empirical regularities that, in the past, held both across countries and … across families in a given country: a negative relationship between income and fertility, and another negative relationship …

Family dynamics are changing in Europe, but only few studies investigate how cohort completed fertility is affected by … increasing prevalence of union dissolution on completed fertility levels in Italy and Great Britain, two countries with very … different systems of value. We find that the net effect of union instability is to decrease fertility (by about 0.5 children for …

partnership processes, but also give good predictions when compared to more recent fertility indicators. We conclude that the …