The total fertility rate is well below its replacement level of 2.1 children in high-income countries. Why do women … choose such low fertility levels? We study how labor market frictions affect the fertility of college-educated women. We …-shift schedules increase the completed fertility of college-educated from 1.52 to 1.88. These reforms enable women to have more …

Fertility in the US exhibits an increasingly more procyclical pattern. We argue that women's breadwinner status is … behind procyclical fertility: (i) women's relative income in the family has increased over time; and (ii) women are more … effect of women's income. Our quantitative framework features a general equilibrium OLG model with endogenous fertility and …

The total fertility rate is well below its replacement level of 2.1 children in high- income countries. Why do women … choose such low fertility levels? We study how labor market frictions affect the fertility of college-educated women. We …-shift schedules increase the completed fertility of college-educated from 1.52 to 1.88. These reforms enable women to have more …

Fertility in the US exhibits an increasingly more procyclical pattern. We argue that women's breadwinner status is … behind procyclical fertility: (i) women's relative income in the family has increased over time; and (ii) women are more … effect of women's income. Our quantitative framework features a general equilibrium OLG model with endogenous fertility and …

importantly, we also show for the first time that selection into fertility is the main driver for the previously observed …

the household is also affected as subsequent fertility is lower and partnership dissolution is more common. Finally …

labor income tax on the fertility rate and per capita consumption. The effects on per capita consumption are opposite in the … hence stimulates per capita consumption. -- child allowance ; child rearing ; endogenous fertility ; wage income tax …

Since the seminal work of Becker, the dynamics of endogenous fertility has been based on the trade-off faced by parents … upstream, so as to keep fertility endogenous. We do that by adding a negative "sibship size effect" on human capital formation …, the possibility of a jump from a state with high fertility and low income to a state with low fertility and high income …

provide suggestive evidence that different selection into fertility drives the opposite counter-cyclical results found in …

A negative relationship between income and fertility has persisted for so long that its existence is often taken for … fertility between rich and poor. We show that the relationship between income and fertility has flattened between 1980 and 2010 … in the US, a time of increasing inequality, as high income families increased their fertility. These facts challenge the …