This paper investigates the effect of a large economic shock on marriage and fertility choices. I exploit the 1990's … men is an important driver of changes in fertility outcomes of young women. Changes in women's employment opportunities is … not a mediator for the e ect of trade exposure on fertility. There is no evidence of changes in marriage rates across …

fertility and infant mortality rate. …

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 …

I study how bias in agricultural technological change affects labor market opportunities and fertility in a modern … of female labor into other sectors. Further, this technology adoption increased fertility, due to increases in overall … market opportunities or contribute to fertility decline, unless substitution effects are negative and sufficiently large …

fertility and infant mortality rate …

evidence that import competition affected fertility decisions. The results highlight the role of gains from joint consumption …

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

Are fertility responses to local unemployment homogenous across sub-demographic groups? This paper investigates how … changes in local unemployment rates affect household fertility decisions in England while taking sub-demographic differences … on the current period fertility. Using the Labor Force Survey and Birth Statistics data from the Office for National …

This paper investigates the interrelated dynamics of employment, cohabitation and fertility for German women and men …

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by …