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. …

constitutes indeed for some females a barrier to participate in the labor market and depresses fertility. …

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. …

fertility can be split into two parts: spacing between births and the number of children. Building on the intrahousehold …

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 …