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 …

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 …

demographers to hypothesise a direct relationship between indicators of economic development and fertility rates. Using recent … National Family Health Survey data and the 1991 Census to explore factors contributing to fertility rates in India, we found … that economic variables explain 70 per cent of the interstate variations in India's fertility rates. However, several non …

of married women lead to increases in their labor supply and reductions in fertility. In Italy, as well as in other … participation of married women. We analyze a model of labor supply and fertility, using panel data from the Bank of Italy which have …

employment rate among young women with children and the low fertility rate in Italy summarise the difficulties encountered by …