Over the past decades, due to a combination of declining fertility rates and rising life expectancies, most … the future. This paper investigates the relationship first between fertility rate and infant mortality rate and second … overall economic activity and the labor market on the bivariate relationship between fertility and mortality rates, the …

This note reviews and evaluates Tasiran's (1995) claim that estimated female wage effects on Swedish fertility dynamics …

This study is the first attempt at placing the analysis of fertility in a temporal dynamic framework in the case of a … developing Asian economy such as Thailand by binding the relationship between fertility and its determinants within a … factor in bringing fertility down in the longer term cannot be denied. However, in the short to longer term, our findings …

This paper investigates the effect of prenatal sex selection on fertility through a stochastic dynamic model with … falls, the sex ratio at birth rises due to more selective abortions, but fertility can rise or fall with rising sex ratio …. Fertility may rise (fall) if there are more (less) women giving up unselective abortions for selective abortions than women …

investment, and fertility). Our empirical investigation finds that the estimated coefficient on social security is significantly … negative in the fertility equation, insignificant in the saving equation, and significantly positive in the growth and …

This paper estimates a reduced form neoclassical model of Canadian fertility dynamics using an econometric technique … in Canadian fertility dynamics as well as other socio-demographic features of Canadian women. However, we fail to totally … characterize the important drops in the fertility rate that took place for this era. …

fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women …'s fertility and labor supply are significantly positively affected by the immigrant generation's fertility and labor supply … respectively, with the effect of mother's fertility and labor supply larger than that of women from the father's source country …

The negative correlation between female employment and fertility in industrialized nations has weakened since the 1960s …-skilled immigration has driven down wages in the US child-care sector. More affordable child-care has, in turn, increased the fertility of …, immigrant-led declines in the price of child-care has reduced the extent of role incompatibility between fertility and work. …

We investigate the direct and long-run effects of fertility on employment in Europe estimating dynamic models of labor … supply under different assumptions regarding the exogeneity of fertility and modeling assumptions related to initial …

female labor supply and fertility. However, particularly in the last decade or so, the relationship across countries has been … positive: for example countries like Germany, Italy and Spain with the lowest fertility rates also have the lowest female … female labor supply and higher fertility. These results are strengthened when we take account of the heterogeneity among …