This paper studies the determinants of fertility in a panel of 150 developing and developed nations. The paper finds … affect fertility of the developed countries, but they do not have robust effects on fertility in the developing world. The … male labor-force participation rate is important in explaining fertility in developing countries and it has a bigger …

In a 1974 paper, Coale and Trussell described an empirical relationship between the age-specific fertility rate, the … marital fertility rate, and the proportion of women with first marriages. However, their key assumption was no nonmarital … fertility. This obscures the relationship between nonmarital fertility and overall fertility that distinguishes many modern …

This paper analyses long-term effects of highly unbalanced sex ratios in Germany caused by World War II on fertility … the number of men delayed women's first birth. However, the effects crucially depend on at what age fertility of women is …

fertility. What type of model is consistent with this finding? We explore this question using two models of fertility: one by …-age transfers. The effect of increases in government provided pensions on fertility in the Barro and Becker model is very small …, whereas the effect on fertility in the Boldrin and Jones model is sizeable and accounts for between 55 and 65% of the observed …

We investigate the determinants of the fertility decline in Europe from 1830 to 1970 using a newly constructed dataset … of linguistic distances between European regions. We find that the fertility decline resulted from a gradual diffusion of … new fertility behavior from French-speaking regions to the rest of Europe. We observe that societies with higher education …

This paper analyzes the effects of local labor market conditions on fertility behavior. The empirical strategy exploits … fertility rates. The results show that local labor markets less exposed to international competition had the reduction in … fertility rates. We estimate a decrease of 3.8% in fertility rates when moving from the 90th percentile to the 10th percentile …

Young households in Hong Kong face particularly steep increases in house prices and low fertility despite low gender … wage gaps. The model of fertility and housing in this paper explains why fertility decline need not reverse as female wages … house prices then fertility also rises. For endogenous house prices, however, growth in wages and a burgeoning working age …

national debt, government budget deficits and taxes, on fertility decisions over the business cycle. A rise in the debt …-GDP ratio, government spending-GDP ratio and the deficit-GDP ratio reduces fertility. On the other hand, a fall in the tax … revenues-GDP ratio is associated with lower fertility rates. These results hold even after controlling for other potential …

, suggesting weakened role of son preference within families in contemporary China. …