and its heterogeneous effects on the labor market opportunities of men and women affected demographic behavior. We focus …. While there was no change in the overall fertility rate, marital fertility declined, and there was an increase in nonmarital … relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior. …

fertility among minor women, aged 21 or younger, for whom access restrictions were most drastically lifted. We then evaluate how … examining its impact on female fertility control and human capital formation. We find that younger women who grew up in more …We investigate how religious beliefs affected the take up of the birth control pill and impacted women's outcomes using …

Fertility has a strong biological component generally ignored by economists. Using the UK Biobank, we analyze the …-nurture interplay becomes stronger in more egalitarian environments that empower women, allowing genes to express themselves more fully …

-in-difference design and a fertility survey with information on conception, contraception, and labor supply arrangements. Childcare …. In a country with the lowest total fertility rate in the world and that often performs middling in rankings of gender … inequality, we conclude that paid childcare leave for working women confers some positive benefits. …

data at the macro level have found a positive short-term effect of the pandemic on fertility level in Norway, but women …'s fertility in Norway was mainly driven by women in life phases that have generally high fertility rates (women aged 28-35 years …This study examines the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on fertility in Norway at the individual level. Studies using …

Fertility has a strong biological component generally ignored by economists. Using the UK Biobank, we analyze the …-nurture interplay becomes stronger in more egalitarian environments that empower women, allowing genes to express themselves more fully …

This paper examines fertility and labor supply responses to a French policy reform that consisted in conditioning the …, the paper finds that restricting family allowance eligibility criteria decreases fertility. The results also highlight … supply. Auxiliary regressions show that at least part of the decline in fertility is due to timing effects, as the fertility …

the affirmative. Specifically, nations with a history of women’s suffrage, greater representation of women in the … government, lower fertility rates, and better overall gender equality experienced lower income inequality, ceteris paribus. These … underinvesting in initiatives to empower women. …

The decisions of parents following the birth of their first child concerning subsequent fertility, and the stability of …-International inventory around 2000 and 2010, we examine the effect of the gender of the first-born child(ren) on the fertility and …