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 …

Many studies have documented a negative association between macroeconomic indicators and fertility in times of economic …-cohorts of white women who entered the age of 34-36 years old being childless before the crisis, in 2004, and at the onset of the … crisis, in 2007. Our identification strategy relies on the assumption that these two adjacent cohorts of women differ only …

This paper explores gendered patterns of time use as an explanatory factor behind fertility trends in the developed … decades of unprecedented fertility decline in the industrialized world, only a handful of countries in the West exhibit … replacement fertility rates - around two children per woman. Paradoxically, birth rates are substantially lower in countries in …

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 … which women are detected HIV positive. Younger women self-select into HIV during their antenatal VCT but their preference …

sex ratio in World War II contributed to a lower decline in fertility and child mortality rates in postwar Japan. In … particular, the fertility rate would have fallen by an additional 12% and the child mortality rate by an additional 13% between …

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 …

marriage rates in the world, but the lowest total fertility; they have the lowest total fertility, but almost all married women … across education:The social norm lowers fertility for highly educated women but increases it for the less educated. Pro … sufficiently boost fertility for highly educated women. On the other hand, the social stigma has negligible effects on marriage and …

in the 1980s to empirically examine the causal impact of women's education on fertility in rural China by difference … results are also partly explained by more educated women preferring quality to quantity of children, placing a greater value …

-validation criteria.Third, we use data on Google searches during the COVID-19 pandemic to predict changes in aggregate fertility rates in …. Women with less than a college education, as well as Black or African American women, are predicted to have larger declines … in fertility due to COVID-19. This finding is consistent with elevated caseloads of COVID-19 in low-income and minority …

often result in clinic closures, limiting abortion access. We study how women's exposure to these laws in adolescence … affects their fertility and educational attainment. For this study, we codify the legal history of all TRAP laws ever … abortion access, we find that impacts on births are large and robust for Black women. Black teen births in states that …