expenditure and the total fertility rate, using a sample of 30 European countries, and to evaluate its magnitude. The results … spending has a positive long-term effect on total fertility rate. …

The distinction between wanted and unwanted fertility has been crucial in many of the more intense debates in recent … decades over the nature of contemporary fertility declines and, in particular, the potential impact of expanded provision of … family planning services. In a much-debated article published in 1994, Pritchett argues that decline in desired fertility is …

Using the 1995–2011 March Current Population Survey and 1970–2000 Census data, we find that the fertility, education … positively affected by the immigrant generation’s levels of these variables, with the effect of the fertility and labor supply of … present some evidence that suggests our findings for fertility and labor supply are due at least in part to intergenerational …

endogenous fertility, endogenous labor supply and endogenous size of government spending. Family policies which concern childcare … explain differences in household decisions between countries. The solution shows a U-shaped relationship between fertility and …-shaped curve, a decrease in the discrimination level implies a related increase in fertility, women's participation in the labor …

at marriage, fertility rate, and sex ratio at birth, we rank countries according to the Missing Brides Index. …

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 …

We examine how far fertility trends respond to family policies in OECD countries. In the light of the recent fertility … rebound observed in several OECD countries, we empirically test the impact of different family policy settings on fertility … fertility than leave entitlements and benefits granted around childbirth. Our findings are robust once controlling for birth …

' dynamics during their decision processes on fertility intentions and practices, along with community perceptions of male … about their fertility intentions and practices due to the financial challenges of raising large families. This concern has …

model of fertility and labor market decisions that builds on the labor matching framework of Mortensen and Pissarides (1994 … the welfare of males. Leave policies have important effects on fertility, leave taking decisions, and employment. These … take a leave, leave policies effectively subsidize fertility and leave taking. We also find that generous paid parental …

fertility was on the rise. In a reversal of its population policy, in 1989, the government launched an ambitious and innovative … this paper, we evaluate the impact of a particular feature of the program – health houses – on rural fertility, taking … range of estimates for the impact of health houses on village‐level fertility: difference‐in‐differences (DID), matching DID …