This essay analyzes the economic causes and effects of household decisions concerning fertility, education and child …

that internal migrants largely exhibit fertility levels dominant in their childhood environment, while later studies find … migrants’ fertility to resemble more closely that of natives at destination. Some authors attribute the latter to adaptation …, but others claim that selection of migrants by fertility preferences may be the cause. Moreover, the short-term fertility …

’s decision-making autonomy on fertility preferences and ever-use of modern contraception is examined using logistic regression … predictors of fertility preferences and ever-use of modern family planning methods. At the same time, results show that the … effects of women’s education on fertility preferences are not always significant although it has significant roles in …

register data of the three countries in order to describe and contrast fertility developments by birth order over the last … of various cross-country differences in fertility levels. We can determine to what extent developments in one country are … Swedish fertility has fluctuated relatively strongly during the whole period while Danish and Norwegian fertility have evolved …

In this paper we investigate the interrelationships between fertility decisions and union dissolution in Italy and … the 1996 Fertility and Family Survey data for Italy and Spain. Results show that there is a spurious relationship between … fertility and union dissolution in Italy but not in Spain. Nevertheless, in both countries, there is an evident direct effect of …

: endogenous fertility, investment in land, and migration. The relative abundance of land in the West promotes higher fertility … fertility. …

’s participation and reduce the cost of working. However the persistence of a negative relationship between participation and fertility … in these countries implies that it is important to take fertility into account. We analyze a model of labor supply and … fertility, using data from the ECHP (European Community Household Panel) for the period 1994-2000, merged with regional data …

) or to promote marriage and fertility. …

In this paper we present important empirical evidence regarding recent trends in women’s participation and fertility in … considered labour supply and fertility as a joint decision and have explicitly taken into account the endogeneity of fertility in … on the joint decisions of labor market participation and fertility. The results of most analyses indicate that social …