Many papers show that aggregate fertility is pro-cyclical over the business cycle. In this paper we do something else …: using data on more than 100 million births and focusing on within-year changes in fertility, we show that for recent … findings suggest that fertility behavior is more forward-looking and sensitive to changes in short-run expectations about the …

income. As a consequence parentsreduce fertility and increase the amount of intergenerational transfers. Wealthier households …,who have ceteris paribus more offsprings, adjust their fertility decision by a greater magnitude.Therefore a persistent fall in … evidence we solve the Barro-Becker model of fertility in a setup with aggregate and idiosyncratic shocks to labour income …

How are notional defined contribution (NDC) pension schemes and fertility correlated? How is the return rate of NDC … account determined? This study elucidates the dynamics of the correlations between NDC pension schemes and fertility by …. Unemployment exists due to efficiency wages. The theoretical analysis reveals that the fertility and NDC pension account return …

This paper examines the impact of male casualties due to World War II on fertility and female employment in the United … counties in the U.S. experienced a Baby Boom following the war, we find that the increase in fertility was lower in high … fertility, we provide evidence that county male casualties are positively related to 1950s female employment and household …

This paper examines the effect of national income on the total fertility rate (children born per woman). We estimate … the effects on fertility of shocks to national per capita income using plausibly exogenous variations in oil price shock … negative and significant effect on the total fertility rate. Looking at the entire spectrum of the fertility distribution, the …

This study investigates the determinants of the fertility transition in the US from 1850 to the end of the 20th century …. We find a negative relationship between years of schooling and fertility, which suggests that the rise in schooling … accounts for at least 60 percent of the US fertility decline. By contrast, the analysis shows no evidence of a robust …

integration. This study uses large scale administrative data from France and Germany to analyse and directly compare fertility … in fertility decisions, and for a positive income effect for females with high earnings. Females in Germany adapt their … fertility behaviour more strongly in response to economic incentives than their counterpartsin France. This is explained by …

We examine the dynamic interaction of the population age structure, economic dependency, and fertility, paying … particular attention to the role of intergenerational transfers. In the short run, a reduction in fertility produces a quot … probabilistic fashion. We show that most highly developed countries have fertility below the rate that maximizes steady state …