effects of schooling on the fertility of women under the age of 45. This is due to the application of methods to an … completed fertility had increased from its all time low in the nineteen seventies. …

estimate a reduced form purist model of female marital fertility and labour force participation. It focuses in particular on … the effect of formal education on both fertility and labour force participation, and accounts for the potential … positive effect on marital fertility at ages 21–39 and that highly educated women postpone fertility and have a higher labour …

This paper develops and estimates an empirical model of the interplay between fertility and economic development. Using … interplay between fertility and output obtained from single cross-country regressions are biased downward because that method of …

temporarily or permanently affect fertility in small open economies. This article tests the Becker-Barro model with relevant data … that government subsidies for having children have a strong positive effect on fertility, while the provision of public … is only weak support for the hypothesis that real interest rates positively influence fertility. …

Over the past decades, due to a combination of declining fertility rates and rising life expectancies, most … the future. This paper investigates the relationship first between fertility rate and infant mortality rate and second … overall economic activity and the labor market on the bivariate relationship between fertility and mortality rates, the …

This note reviews and evaluates Tasiran's (1995) claim that estimated female wage effects on Swedish fertility dynamics …

This study is the first attempt at placing the analysis of fertility in a temporal dynamic framework in the case of a … developing Asian economy such as Thailand by binding the relationship between fertility and its determinants within a … factor in bringing fertility down in the longer term cannot be denied. However, in the short to longer term, our findings …

This paper investigates the effect of prenatal sex selection on fertility through a stochastic dynamic model with … falls, the sex ratio at birth rises due to more selective abortions, but fertility can rise or fall with rising sex ratio …. Fertility may rise (fall) if there are more (less) women giving up unselective abortions for selective abortions than women …