) on fertility among reproductive-age women. We find that IU reduces the number of children born, with more pronounced … effects among those with a moderate level of education, those aged 16â 19, rural residents, and those who are married. These … gender roles, a reduction in the importance placed on ancestral lines, deteriorated health and reduced fertility preferences …

particular result that seems to suggest that couples do actually bargain competitively is the result that links fertility … fertility. However, we argue, these studies are suffering from endogeneity issues that are not properly instrumented for. We … bargaining power of spouses, but not the fertility decisions directly. Using this identification strategy, we show that fertility …

The associations between fertility and outcomes in the family and society have been treated as causal, but this is … inaccurate if fertility is a choice coordinated by families with other life-cycle decisions, including labour supply of mothers … and children, child human capital, and savings. Estimating how exogenous changes in fertility that are uncorrelated with …

Building on anthropological evidence, we develop a model of intra-household decision making on fertility and child …

. The emphasis on women's employment as a determinant of low fertility has to be supplemented by an examination of the …

In this survey, we argue that the economic analysis of fertility has entered a new era. First-generation models of … fertility choice were designed to account for two empirical regularities that, in the past, held both across countries and … across families in a given country: a negative relationship between income and fertility, and another negative relationship …

over fertility. Furthermore, we find that the ability to commit to household resource allocations depends on the gender of …

show that this time consistency problem leads to a systematic downward bias in fertility choices. By keeping fertility low …, families try to mitigate the ex-ante undesired shift in the power balance. This bias in fertility choices provides scope for … overcome the fertility bias. …