version explaining fall in fertility (birthrate) in the industrialized countries. Possibility to propose governmental policies …

This study presents a novel theory on the interaction of social norms, fertility, education, and their joint impact on … existence of two steady states. At the traditional steady state, the economy stagnates, fertility is high, education is minimal … population has abandoned traditional beliefs, modern contraceptives are used, fertility is low and education and economic growth …

-quality model of fertility, a large and growing body of empirical research has used binary instruments to estimate LATEs of family … they possess some knowledge of the idiosyncratic effects in the fertility decision. …

Previously evidence on the pre-modern relationship between wealth and fertility almost entirely relied upon data from … relationship between income and fertility. …

This paper studies the link between crime and fertility and the way by which they jointly impact on economic growth. In … offenders face in escaping apprehension, increases both crime and fertility non-monotonically, giving rise to an ambiguous …-linear effects on both crime and fertility. At the same time, it reveals a negative effect on output growth. …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) on fertility decisions of … positive and sizable effect on fertility decisions of Italian working women. This result is robust to a number of checks …

was related to fertility and number of living children, but not to child mortality in both men and women. Additionally …

Analyzing a homogenous household setting with endogenous fertility and endogenous labor supply, we demonstrate that … moving from joint taxation to individual taxation and adapting child benefits so as to keep fertility constant entails a …