international migration. Fertility is endogenized so that immigrants and natives can have different fertility rates. Fertility is an …

, Thailand, and the Philippines, based on applications of the multinomial logit model to the micro data of the 2003 Census of … Foreign Spouses. Wives from China are found to have the lowest lifetime fertility of 1.4 children, mainly because they were … their second marriage. The effect of wife’s educational attainment on lifetime fertility turned out to be either modest or …

factors underlying historical fertility limitation, the role of parental education has received little attention. We combine … their fertility before the demographic transition. Despite controlling for several demand and supply factors, we find a … negative residual effect of women's education on fertility. Instrumental-variable estimates, using exogenous variation in women …

productivity, consumption, inter-generational human capital accumulation and desired fertility. Lastly, there is no evidence that …

fertility is exogenous. We then prove versions of the first welfare theorem assuming that decision making is efficient within … which fertility decisions are not efficient, and classify them into ones where inefficiencies arise inside the family and …

The evidence strongly suggests a robust negative relationship between income and fertility, and a positive relationship … a positive longevity-income relationship for rich individuals, but also predict a positive fertility-income relationship …

The current total fertility rate in France has been increasing over this last ten years and is has reached its highest … level since the early 1980s with a rate at 1,98 in 2006. Compared to European standards, this high level of fertility makes … of the hypotheses ventured to explain the current low fertility observed in European countries. France's fertility level …

We examine how far changes in fertility trends are related to ongoing economic development in OECD countries. In the … light of the inverse J-shaped relationship between the human development index (HDI) and total fertility rates that was … recently found by Myrskylä, Kohler and Billari (2009), we single out the impact of economic development on fertility. We …