and fertility behavior of teenage women in Turkey using the 2008 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey. We find that the … for this purpose. -- age at marriage ; fertility ; education ; compulsory schooling …

heterogeneity of rearing costs and of enjoying children is introduced. Two major results: (i) excluding negative savings, fertility … decreases with pension contributions and increases with taxes; (ii) the introduction of fertility-dependent pensions may … strengthen heterogeneity in fertility. …

relationship between fertility rates and income was positive. On the other hand, there were those who raised the possibility that …

administrative vital statistics, we find that birth control clinics accounted for 5.0 7.8% of the overall fertility decline until …

Despite empirical evidence that individuals form their fertility preferences by observing social norms and interactions … China Labor-force Dynamics Survey to investigate the association between community-level peer effects and fertility … fertility reduces the preference of wanting only one child by 14.3%, whereas it increases the probability of preferring three …

environments characterized by fixed resources, endogenous fertility, and full information. Individuals in our environment are fully … et al. (2007). We also show that efficient allocation in the endogenous fertility case differs significantly from its … exogenous fertility counterpart. In particular, optimal steady state population is proportional to the amount of fixed resources …

This paper analyzes the effects of local labor market conditions on fertility behavior. The empirical strategy exploits … fertility rates. The results show that local labor markets less exposed to international competition had the reduction in … fertility rates. We estimate a decrease of 3.8% in fertility rates when moving from the 90th percentile to the 10th percentile …

This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility … and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high …