We analyze the timing of birth of the first three children based on German panel data (GSOEP) within a hazard rate … determinants of fertility can be measured when at risk rather than ex-post, thus helping to reduce the risk of reverse causality … average, a different birth history trajectory, but with negligible curtailment of completed fertility. …

German mothers with children aged zero to two exceeds the corresponding child care enrollment rate whereas the opposite is … true for mothers with children aged three to mandatory school age. I develop a life-cycle model that explicitly accounts … model is used to evaluate two recently passed policy reforms concerning the supply of subsidized child care for children …

couples also bargain over fertility. In contrast to earlier tests of bargaining models, our empirical approach makes use of … for fertility decisions. Our results also indicate that couples are not able to fully commit to household resource … that the effect of child benefits on fertility could be enhanced by directing transfers to women. …

Alike most of the Western world, the Danish fertility rate declined throughout the 20th century simultaneous to … economic growth. This development, which conflicts with economic intuition, has been denoted the fertility paradox, and several … the fertility rate during the years 1982 to 2004. Several factors commonly believed to explain the variation in the …

fertility can be split into two parts: spacing between births and the number of children. Building on the intrahousehold …The results of the Demographic Health Survey (DHS) reveal that women in Ethiopia prefer fewer children than men, which … can be explained by the greater costs that women have to incur from pregnancy, delivery and care for children. In view of …

a gender wage gap, associated with lower female labor force participation rates and higher fertility. This paper … presents a growth model where saving, fertility and labor market participation are endogenously determined, and there is wage … increase in fertility. We find that for several countries a large fraction of the actual difference in output per capita …

education, higher fertility rates and higher child mortality. Moreover, social institutions related to gender inequality are …

In this paper we analyze the distribution of fertility rates across the world using parametric mixture models. We … demonstrate the existence of twin peaks and the division of the world's countries in two distinct components: a high-fertility … regime and a low fertility regime. Whereas the significance of twin peaks vanishes over time, the two fertility regimes …

We present a growth model where savings, fertility, labour force participation and gender wage discrimination are … positive cycle of high female participation, low fertility and high growth. Our empirical study is in two parts. Firstly, we …