fertility, one of the central relations in demography, and show that several factors - including disruptions to marriage and …This paper studies the effect of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic on fertility using a historical dataset from Sweden …. Our results suggest an immediate reduction in fertility driven by morbidity, and additional behavioral effects driven by …

Fertility in the United States rose from a low of 2.27 children for women born in 1908 to a peak of 3.21 children for …-twentieth century baby boom and generated a rise in women’s human capital, ultimately leading to a decline in desired fertility for … associated with a rise in fertility for women born between 1921 and 1940, with a rise in college and high school graduation rates …

This paper studies the effects of import competition from China and Eastern Europe (EE) on the fertility decisions of … import competition to longitudinal individual data to examine individual fertility. Two separate measures of import exposure … remarkably during the panel years. Fixed-effects instrumental variable (FEIV) estimation results show that individual fertility …

application of the bunching methodology to examine whether the war shifted the timing of fertility or changed women's completed … fertility. I disaggregate the number of births by age for cohorts of mothers, and estimate counterfactual distributions of … births by exploiting that women experienced the war at different ages. I show that the rise in fertility after the liberation …

We assess the impact of continued low fertility in China, versus a rebound in fertility due to the relaxation of the …), income per capita is lower with a fertility rebound due primarily to a higher youth dependency rate. In the long run, higher … fertility leads to a reduction in the old-age dependency ratio and lowers the tax rate required to pay for old-age pensions and …

We propose a unified growth model linking technology, education investment across genders, and fertility to explain … human capital, accelerating technological progress. This reinforcing loop results in the transition to a new fertility …

. In reality, however, fertility levels are falling dramatically for countries and sub-national populations throughout the … Ummah — and traditional marriage patterns and living arrangements are undergoing tremendous change. This paper will …

evidence that a shock in fertility has a cost for a family as a whole. Mothers are more likely to live under less stable family … fertility comes from those countries with lower level of development …

December 1970. The primary objective of the survey was to collect fertility-related micro-level data from Singaporean …