<Para ID="Par1">Over the last few decades, total fertility rates, child morbidity, and child mortality rates have … the often remarkably large gaps in fertility between rural and urban areas. Although a large literature has highlighted …, Ghana. We find that the completed fertility patterns of lifetime Accra residents are remarkably similar to those of …

-famine fertility, we find that women who were pregnant during the famine experienced a higher number of stillbirths in the post …

In this paper, we study the separate effects of unemployment and job displacement on fertility in a sample of white … effect on fertility decisions, but the very fact of being displaced from a career-oriented job has. Fertility rates for women …

In this paper, we study the evolution of the distribution of fertility rates across the world from 1950 to 2005 using … components: a high-fertility regime and a low-fertility regime. Whereas the significance of twin peaks vanishes over time, the … two fertility regimes continue to exists over the whole observation period. In 1950, about two thirds of the world …

terms of time and goods affects the optimal fertility timing. Then, we identify conditions that guarantee the existence and …

reproduction, before the diffusion of birth control and contraceptive techniques. According to this dominant view, before fertility … decline, marital fertility was mainly regulated by biological and physiological factors and socio-economic factors played only … fertility levels could significantly be affected by social and economic factors even in natural fertility populations, before …

In the light of the recent reversal of fertility trends in several highly developed countries, we investigate the … impact of economic development and its components on fertility in OECD countries from 1960 to 2007. We find that the strong … fertility instead seems to turn into positive from a certain threshold level of economic development on. Survival of an inverse …

. One strand of this research focuses on the implications of fertility for the parents’ level of self-reported well-being or … negative, is acknowledged in the treatment effect literature. However, there is little consciousness about it in the fertility …