estimates the role of culture in explaining the labor and fertility decisions of second generation immigrant women to the United … both labor and fertility decisions, I am unable to reproduce them relative to labor decisions in alternative samples drawn …

The negative correlation between women’s education and fertility is strongly observed across regions and time; however …, its interpretation is unclear. Women’s education level could affect fertility through its impact on women’s health and … their physical capacity to give birth, children’s health, the number of children desired, and women’s ability to control …

This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility … and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high …-skilled US-born women in cities that have experienced larger immigrant inflows. Most interestingly, these changes have been …

exploit sex composition of children as an exogenous source of variation in family size to account for endogeneity of fertility … with one and more, two and more, and three and more children, I find no significant effect of fertility on female labor …

particularly relevant to policies for dealing with the gender pay gap and below-replacement fertility rates, both thought to be … services and high-skilled women respond by working more or having more children. …

The negative correlation between women's education and fertility has been observed across regions and time, although it … is now weaker among high-income countries. Women's education level could affect fertility through its impact on women …'s health and their physical capacity to give birth, children's health, the number of children desired, and women's ability to …

disparities for women and men across different labor outcomes following the birth of the first child. Our findings show that, the … responses in earnings and labor market participation by educational level: college-educated women react to motherhood more on … the intensive margin (working part-time), while non-college-educated women are relatively more likely to do so in the …

its total fertility rate. At the household level, it has also been well documented that children’s education is negatively …At the national level, it has long been observed that a country’s average education level is negatively associated with … children and the average education level (the quantity–quality trade-off)? A clear answer to this question will help both …