time of marriage, household income, and number of siblings' children. We find that fertility is negatively related to age … at time of marriage and positively to the number of siblings' children. The relationship between fertility and household …Below replacement fertility is a common problem among the rich countries with far reaching economic and social …

A large number of pairs of countries exhibit a dynamic pattern in which: (i) Fertility in both countries declines … across time; (ii) Initially one country has higher fertility and lower per-capita income compared to the other; (iii) In time …, as per-capita income converges, fertility rates in the poorer country become lower than in the richer one.This paper …

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 …

The paper compares fertility outcomes between women enrolled in HIV clinics and the DHS sample which were both … administered in Yaoundé contemporaneously. Using propensity score matching, I show that fertility outcomes are contingent on age at … contraceptive method at the time of the survey, giving suggestive evidence of unmet need. These results are consistent when we use …

We question the received wisdom that birth limitation was absent among historical populations before the fertility …-run effect of living standards on birth spacing in the three centuries preceding England’s fertility transition. While the effect …

fertility behavior are influenced by their social context where immediate neighborhoods and neighbors may play a significant … fertility preferences. Using detailed geo-data from Norwegian administrative registers to locate couples in flexible ego …-centered neighborhoods, this paper introduces a new dimension of spatial fertility variations. Results from regression models show that the …

This paper studies the dynamics of fertility in 180 countries in the period 1950-2015 and investigates the determinants … of the onset of fertility transitions. We find evidence of convergence in three groups of countries, and distinguish the … transitioning countries from those not transitioning. The estimation of the year of onset of the fertility transition is followed by …

There have been significant changes in both the fertility rates and fertility perception since 1970s. In this paper, we … examine the relationship between government policies towards fertility and the fertility trends. Total fertility rate, defined … as the number of children per woman, is used as the main fertility trend variable. We use panel data from the United …

This article uses China's family planning policies to quantify and explain spillovers in fertility decisions. We test … whether ethnic minorities decreased their fertility in response to the policies, although only the majority ethnic group, the …-specific fertility levels to construct a measure of the negative shock to Han fertility. Combining this measure with variation in the …