In most western societies, marital fertility began to decline in the nineteenth century. But in Ireland, fertility in … marriage remained stubbornly high into the twentieth century. Explanations of Ireland's late entry to the fertility transition … Irish outside of Ireland behaved the same way. This paper investigates these claims by examining the marital fertility of …

parental choices. This shows that realized or expected children's death is not the only link between fertility decision and …

determines the long-run rate of output growth. Increased genetic diversity (or income inequality) is shown to raise the fertility …

altruism within the family, population growth is inefficiently high, if the family does not have, or does not choose to use …

to strictly exogenous. This model is applied to estimate a female participation equation with endogenous fertility and … exogenous fertility movements. The results indicate that assuming the exogeneity of fertility induces a downward bias in … absolute value in the estimated negative effect of fertility on participation, although the failure to account for unobserved …