The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female … mechanisms finds a narrowing of gender gaps in parental investments in children, moderation of son-biased fertility stopping, and … shrinking of the gap between actual and desired fertility. Heterogeneity in fertility responses suggests a shift in the …

Women's breast cancer (BC) in Africa is detrimental to development, given the role women play in their families and … cancer and assesses factors that influence income and productivity among women with BC. Cross-sectional data were collected … using questionnaires on 200 women with clinically confirmed BC cases in Southwest Nigeria over 6 months. About sixty …

while that of fertility is accounted for by women with tertiary education. Considerations related to inequality and … married mothers' employment and fertility rates, paying special attention to heterogeneous effects. A heterogeneous agent … model, populated by married households who make decisions related to labour supply and fertility, and the Spanish economy …

Fertility in the US exhibits an increasingly more procyclical pattern. We argue that women's breadwinner status is … behind procyclical fertility: (i) women's relative income in the family has increased over time; and (ii) women are more … effect of women's income. Our quantitative framework features a general equilibrium OLG model with endogenous fertility and …

fertility in East Germany. But did it also affect the fertility of future generations? In this paper, I investigate early …

1990s. We analyse in-depth interviews to explore women's motives to work for pay. We investigate how these motives are … related to women's childbearing experiences and intentions. Our analyses show that motherhood was central in women's lives at … this point in Polish history, but females sought to combine it with employment. We also find that women's perceptions about …

estimates the role of culture in explaining the labor and fertility decisions of second generation immigrant women to the United … both labor and fertility decisions, I am unable to reproduce them relative to labor decisions in alternative samples drawn …