participation in urban China. To ameliorate the endogeneity of fertility, we exploit twin births as the instrument for the number of …

Three profound changes - the mortality, fertility and contraception transitions - characterized the Victorian era in … their fertility target at no cost. The historical experience from Victorian England is at odds with this view of costless … fertility regulation. We incorporate costly fertility limitation into the Becker paradigm: in our story, the mortality …

Are fertility responses to local unemployment homogenous across sub-demographic groups? This paper investigates how … changes in local unemployment rates affect household fertility decisions in England while taking sub-demographic differences … on the current period fertility. Using the Labor Force Survey and Birth Statistics data from the Office for National …

This paper projects the effects of exogenous fertility changes in Turkey on the age structure of population and the … and the fertility rate are endogenous. The calibrated version of the model delivers three important results: First …. Third, even under an increasing rate of technological progress, a permanent upward shift in fertility levels would imply …

and fertility decisions, fit it to data from a national longitudinal survey and estimate it by Simulated Method of Moments … fertility changes occur not only at earlier periods but also after a career interruption when teachers are considering a … in nonteaching jobs is positively associated with the greatest impact that the policy has on fertility in nonteaching …

In this paper, we apply an Overlapping Generations (OLG) model with endogenous fertility and a pay as you go (PAYG … growth it is possible to increase the fertility without harming any generation. Here we show that this is impossible in a …

find that all age groups except teenagers show a positive fertility response to the policy. The results suggest that the … policy may have elicited fertility behaviour change, evidenced by a higher cumulative growth in fertility of maternal age …

In this paper we analyzed a model of endogenous fertility in presence of f financial market assets and social security … pensions. Given the children externality and in the absence of corrective policy, the fertility rate chosen in market economy …

, urbanization and female labour force participation play in determining fertility of women in Pakistan. ARDL bound testing approach … to 2009. Empirical results show that there exists a long run as well as short run relationship between fertility and … relationship between all three determinants with fertility. Female education and urbanization of the society play significant role …

This paper is in two parts. Part I is essentially a comparison with the results of the Pakistan Fertility Survey(1970 …-75) and basically a few themes have been thrown up. One is whether the 12-percent decline in fertility claimed by the PFS can … substantiated or refuted or made inconsistent with this four-in-one venture of Migration, Fertility and so forth. Part II goes into …