fertility between 1995 and 2004. The analysis based on micro-data supports the experience of other countries that fertility is …

Since 1989 fertility and family formation have declined sharply in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet … Union. Fertility rates are converging on—and sometimes falling below—rates in Western Europe, most of which are below …

We investigate the relationship between living standards and fertility, using a three-wave panel dataset from Indonesia … to provide information on women’s fertility histories and the levels of consumption expenditure in the households to … gestation lags to identify causal effects of living standards on fertility and vice versa. …

This paper studies to what extent banning first-generation women from aborting affected the fertility of second …

This paper studies to what extent banning first-generation women from aborting affected the fertility of second …

demographic transformation in the past twenty years. On many dimensions of fertility and family formation, much of the region now … looks like Western Europe-below-replacement fertility rates, rising age at first marriage and first birth, and high and … increasing out-of-wedlock birthrates, characterize many countries formerly distinguished by replacement-level fertility and early …

increase in fertility rates, particularly for second births among married and older women, providing suggestive evidence of an … increase in completed fertility. Second, we find an increase in overall female employment, likely due to the desire to qualify …

. While there was no change in the overall fertility rate, marital fertility declined, and there was an increase in nonmarital … relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior. …

, fertility and children's living circumstances during 1990-2014. On average, trade shocks differentially reduce employment and … reduce marriage and fertility. Consistent with prominent sociological accounts, these shocks heighten male idleness and …

, fertility and children's living circumstances during 1990-2014. On average, trade shocks differentially reduce employment and … reduce marriage and fertility. Consistent with prominent sociological accounts, these shocks heighten male idleness and …