literature, the paper finds that it is not Islam that worsens gender inequality but rather the high fertility rates generally …

This paper studies the impact of culture on the fertility decisions of adolescent women. To identify this effect, we … use the epidemiological approach, exploiting the variations in fertility rates of teen women by ancestor’s home country …. Then, differences in fertility rates of adolescent women by national origin can be considered as supporting evidence of the …

Economic theories of fertility decline often center on the rising net price of children. But empirical tests of such … household’s own children. Using a panel dataset of white Southern households between 1850 and 1870, I measure the fertility … household fertility rates. To further corroborate these results, I measure the fertility response of households to another shock …

. When child mortality falls from lower prevalence, as in western Europe, labor productivity improves, fertility falls and …

The current study finds that societies which historically engaged in plough agriculture today have lower fertility. We … fertility. …

This paper explores the fertility decisions of Canadian immigrants using a 20 percent sample of the Canadian Census of … to assess their process of assimilation in terms of fertility. Our analysis does not show any sharp discontinuity in … fertility by age at migration as sometimes observed on education or labor market outcomes. Instead, there is an inverted U shape …

, employment, fertility, and child support. We consider the extent to which low earnings and a shortage of single men relative to … little effect on racial differences in marriage and fertility. …

uncovers clues to declining fertility, skyrocketing female labor force participation and many other phenomena that are changing …

We study the short- to medium-run effects of starting a career on a fixed-term contracton subsequent fertility outcomes … well as fertility behavior. Ourmain results are: Women (i) tend to postpone first birth due to fixed-term employmentat …