Unlike in the United States where fertility is found to be negatively correlated with female labor force participation …, China has witnessed a decrease in both fertility and female labor force participation since the 1980s. Does fertility play a … plausibly exogenous variations in fertility created by the afffirmative One-Child Policy in China to estimate the effect of …

 Extensive evidence from cross-sectional data reveals a robust negative relationship betweenfamily income and fertility … fertility wouldbe independent of parental income. In this case, if the present value of a childÂ’s future incomeexceeds the cost … possible in order to maximize rents. A relationshipbetween fertility and income arises when parents are unable to leave debts …

It is well known that highly female fields of study in tertiary education are characterized by higher fertility …-in-differences research design, to show that the share of women on study peer groups affects early fertility levels only little. Early … fertility by endogamous couples, i.e., by tertiary graduates from the same field of study, declines for women and increases for …

simultaneous but opposite influence on fertility. This empirical paper aims to test the concomitance of these effects using the …

empowerment and child mortality via early marriage, defined as marriage before age 16. There exist three channels through which …

Among Mexican parents child gender has an effect on family structure and fertility decisions. A first-born daughter …

fertility. One important consequence was the relatively low population growth characterizing the cultures, religions, and ethno …

This paper reviews Gary Becker's contributions to the economic analysis of fertility, from his 1960 paper introducing … the quantity-quality tradeoff to later work linking the economics of fertility to the theory of economic growth. …

distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and …