individual fertility results from the interaction between economic and cultural characteristics of parents. This evolution of the … literature tends to rehabilitate, at least in part, the Synthesis Model of fertility. In this line, the present paper … investigates the determinants of fertility on a French dataset. It shows that cultural and economic characteristics of the …

fertility choices such as sex selection, we present strong evidence that having a son increases the amount of gifts and …

of married women lead to increases in their labor supply and reductions in fertility. In Italy, low labor market … market participation of married women. We analyze a model of labor supply and fertility, using panel data. The empirical …

This study examines households’ fertility variations in response to expected permanent shifts in the return to … fertility process. The results indicate that high education parents’ fertility responds negatively to changes in the expected … return to college and negatively to changes in the expected return to high school. On the other hand, the fertility of low …

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 …