currently has the lowest total fertility rate in the world. In this paper, we propose a theory with status externalities and … endogenous fertility that connects these two facts. Using a quantitative heterogeneous-agent model calibrated to Korea, we find … that fertility would be 16% higher in the absence of the status externality and that childlessness in the poorest quintile …

marriage rates, fertility and educational attainment of women who were affected by the change in law. After the passage of the … law, marriage rates declined sharply, and as a result, fertility declined and educational attainment increased. The … marriage can have significant implications for reducing fertility and increasing educational attainment of women …

decline on demographic and economic growth by a family-optimization model, in which fertility is endogenous and wealth yields … population growth, but the desire of status hampers fertility and prevents capital-diluting demographic expansion. If status …

This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and …

Economic explanations for the fertility transition focus on the role of returns to schooling, especially for women … for additional births Declines in fertility have proceeded unevenly, first across the high income countries, and more … recently across the low income countries. The cross sectional differentials in fertility are also frequently analyzed in …

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 …

There has been much interest in how the provision of formal public day care influences fertility (e.g. Ermisch, 1989 …; Hank & Kreyenfeld, 2003; Rindfuss et al., 2010) but the implications of using informal sources of child care on fertility … investigated this relationship have generally found that grandparental care was associated with greater fertility, but most have …

The causal effects of fertility are a central focus in the social sciences, but the analysis is challenged by the … endogeneity of fertility choices. Earlier work has proposed several "natural experiments" from twin births or gender composition … rare (twins) and weak (gender composition) instrumental variables for fertility. This paper proposes a new "natural …

introduction of the smallpox vaccine in Sweden to identify the causal effect of early-life mortality on fertility. Our analysis … on net fertility and population growth …