The effect of mortality reductions on fertility is one of the main mechanisms stressed by the recent growth literature … mortality plays a large role in fertility reductions, that the change in fertility behavior comes with a lag of about 10 years … of all countries since 1960. We distinguish between the effects on gross and net fertility, take into account the dynamic …

This paper explores gendered patterns of time use as an explanatory factor behind fertility trends in the developed … decades of unprecedented fertility decline in the industrialized world, only a handful of countries in the West exhibit … replacement fertility rates - around two children per woman. Paradoxically, birth rates are substantially lower in countries in …

with a slow entrance into the sustained fertility decline that characterized the first demographic transition. The South … of fertility is a demographic trend that accompanies regional development, revealing changes in societal values, in the … among young people, and the persistence of emigration. We conclude that the persistence of high fertility levels during …