Economic and demographic outcomes are determined jointly in a choice-theoretic model of fertility, mortality and …

Cointegration methods are employed to investigate relations among total fertility, female wages, labor force … are identified as a fertility and a labor supply equation. All covariates enter into these relations with significant … coefficients and theoretically plausible signs. Innovation analysis shows that both fertility and female labor force participation …

negative wage rate and positive income effects on Swedish fertility are very sensitive. In this paper, I explain, first, that …

This paper shows that financial intermediation can influence fertility and labor allocation decisions by raising market … to have fewer children, the labor allocation decision leads to lower national fertility. A panel VAR using financial … intermediation, fertility and industrial employment share data in 87 countries is estimated. The empirical results show that the data …

In central Europe fertility fell during transition from centrally planned to market oriented economies. Families … reevaluated fertility plans facing new wages, reduced child-care subsidies, and economic uncertainty. Using micro-data from 1984 … and 1993 in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, this paper relates fertility changes following Communism to wages, prices …

Investigating the effects of population aging on fertility and economic growth, we show that an increase in life … expectancy lowers the fertility rate and raises life-cycle savings, and that a pay-as-you-go social security does not reverse the … effect on fertility. …