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. …

(Investment in Women's Human Capital and Economic Development 1995) and observed elsewhere. This paper tests the U …

Many studies have documented a negative association between macroeconomic indicators and fertility in times of economic …-cohorts of white women who entered the age of 34-36 years old being childless before the crisis, in 2004, and at the onset of the … crisis, in 2007. Our identification strategy relies on the assumption that these two adjacent cohorts of women differ only …

question has important implications for policy measures that could be taken to improve women's lives. …

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 …

media as a link in the causal chain between reality television and fertility. …