(partnerships, marriages, and childbearing) of modern Russian women. The quantitative research conducted on 2,229 individual … biographies of women between 19 and 43 implies the use of descriptive analysis and Event History Analysis (Cox regression) within … characterized as mostly immobile (more than two thirds of women never experienced migration, at least before age 43). The paper …

This paper investigates the causal relationship between women's schooling and fertility by exploiting variation … model finds that the removal of school fees led to an increase in schooling for Ethiopian women, and that each additional … year of schooling led to a reduction in fertility. An investigation of the underlying mechanisms linking schooling and …

decisions and contraceptive choices of women. I develop a discrete choice dynamic structural model, where each married woman in … woman can only imperfectly control her fertility. Dynamics in the model are captured by several forms of state and duration … dependence. Women in this model make different choices due to different preferences, differences in observable characteristics …

women in a framework that accounts for the endogeneity of labor market and fertility decisions, the heterogeneity of the … effects of children and their correlation with the fertility decisions, and the correlation of sequential labor market … decisions. Our results show that timing and spacing of births are important determinants of the effect of children on women …

) on fertility among reproductive-age women. We find that IU reduces the number of children born, with more pronounced … gender roles, a reduction in the importance placed on ancestral lines, deteriorated health and reduced fertility preferences …

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

, and migrant registry records in South Korea. I find that the total fertility rate in 2015 would have been 3% lower without …

This paper analyzes the consequences of the spacing of births for women's subsequent labor income and wages. Spacing … births in longer intervals may allow women to re-enter the labor market between childbearing events, thereby avoiding …

This paper studies the causal effect of the timing of first birth on highly educated women's career outcomes using … effects might partly be explained by child spacing; motherhood delay induces women to have the second child more closely …

(Investment in Women's Human Capital and Economic Development 1995) and observed elsewhere. This paper tests the U …