Fertility has long been declining in industrialised countries and the existence of public pension systems is considered … pension system depresses fertility. Our theoretical framework highlights that the effect of a public pension system on … fertility works via the impact of contributions in such a system on disposable income as well as via the impact on future …

Unlike in the United States where fertility is found to be negatively correlated with female labor force participation …, China has witnessed a decrease in both fertility and female labor force participation since the 1980s. Does fertility play a … plausibly exogenous variations in fertility created by the afffirmative One-Child Policy in China to estimate the effect of …

 Extensive evidence from cross-sectional data reveals a robust negative relationship betweenfamily income and fertility … fertility wouldbe independent of parental income. In this case, if the present value of a childÂ’s future incomeexceeds the cost … possible in order to maximize rents. A relationshipbetween fertility and income arises when parents are unable to leave debts …

It is well known that highly female fields of study in tertiary education are characterized by higher fertility …-in-differences research design, to show that the share of women on study peer groups affects early fertility levels only little. Early … fertility by endogamous couples, i.e., by tertiary graduates from the same field of study, declines for women and increases for …

simultaneous but opposite influence on fertility. This empirical paper aims to test the concomitance of these effects using the …

Among Mexican parents child gender has an effect on family structure and fertility decisions. A first-born daughter …