Job insecurity can have wide-ranging consequences outside of the labour market. We here argue that it reduces fertility … probability of having a new child by 3.9 percentage points. Reduced fertility is only found at the intensive margin: job … parenthood, as this fertility effect does not appear for low-income and less-educated workers …

Bismarck pension system. Distortions of the fertility decision can be reduced through the introduction of a stronger child …

Fertility differentials among the Hindus and the Muslims in India are a matter of concern, which attracts scholars of … different disciplines not only in India, but also outside as well. But surprisingly systematic analysis of fertility pattern …

effect on women's fertility choice and utilization of reproductive health care in rural Pakistan. Exploiting variations in … planning exposure on women's fertility choice and reproductive health care utilization. The analysis suggests that, even in the …

The impact of family planning programs on fertility in developing countries is contested, with empirical evidence … finding negative effects on completed fertility but no consistent effect on short-run fertility. Using a lifecycle model of … fertility control choice, we theoretically and empirically show that differential responses of short-run and completed fertility …

In this paper, we show that the one-child policy has played a significant role in the decline of China's fertility. The … one-child policy had reduced China's fertility rate by an additional 11.5%, based on a year-on-year comparison with the …

This study analyses how fertility is affected by social security system when efficiency wages are considered in an … the childrearing costs level, and the higher effort, the higher ability to raise children, improving fertility …

The paper compares fertility outcomes between women enrolled in HIV clinics and the DHS sample which were both … administered in Yaoundé contemporaneously. Using propensity score matching, I show that fertility outcomes are contingent on age at …