In the present work we study the joint determinants of fertility and female labor supply decisions in Uruguayan …

This paper studies the effect of cultural attitudes on childcare provision, fertility, female labour supply and the … gender wage gap. Cross-country data show that fertility, female labour force participation and childcare are positively … a model with endogenous fertility, female labour supply and childcare choices which fits these facts. There may exist …

The paper analyses the impact of grandparenting on individuals’ fertility behaviour using longitudinal data from eleven … childcare is limited and here we see a large impact of grandparenting on fertility. …

The present paper investigates a standard model of endogenous fertility when child survival to adulthood is uncertain …

Very few studies have explored the optimality properties of the "standard model" of fertility where parents must …

assistance. As such, availability of grandmothers affects the cost of having children, and hence fertility decisions of young … parents. In this paper, we develop a simple model to assess the fertility implications of the fluctuations in both output (as …

We analyze the rise of the first socio-economic institution in history that limited fertility – long before the … had to remain unmarried, more farm service spelled later marriages. The resulting reduction in fertility led to a new …

regression results showing that appliance ownership is negatively correlated with fertility. They also argue that the Amish, who … ownership and fertility can arise naturally in Greenwood et al.'s model. Second, evidence is presented casting doubt upon the …