Utilizing Malaysia data from 1973 to 2008, the study reveals that crime can be influenced by population, fertility …

how polygyny affects individual and aggregate fertility. We find that an attractive woman is more likely to find a high … is not too strong. However, the societal practice of polygyny increases aggregate fertility through two distinct channels …: (1) by increasing the number of marriages; and (2) by triggering fertility contagion: a woman, whether involved in a …

the financial variables. We find that improved access to credit increases fertility with an elasticity of around 30 …

Cross-sectional data yield the interesting result that fertility rates and home ownership rates tend to correlate … tests the link between the user cost of home ownership, which is the purchase price of housing, and total fertility rates … fertility considerably decreased when compared with the pooled OLS regression result without controlling for the above effects …

We study workplace peer effects in fertility decisions using a game theory model of strategic interactions among … important consideration, beyond simply if they work, in predicting population fertility. …

participation in urban China. To ameliorate the endogeneity of fertility, we exploit twin births as the instrument for the number of …

Three profound changes - the mortality, fertility and contraception transitions - characterized the Victorian era in … their fertility target at no cost. The historical experience from Victorian England is at odds with this view of costless … fertility regulation. We incorporate costly fertility limitation into the Becker paradigm: in our story, the mortality …