shown that a substantial number of couples used birth control for 'spacing' as well as 'stopping' fertility. Moreover … good. In general the results obtained do not fit with the 'Princeton' view of the European fertility transition, with its …

dependency ratio driven by changes in fertility and longevity. For the former the smoothing argument may be appropriate, but not …

of participation and fertility on a sample of French women. Our results suggest that fertility responds to incentives in … here empirically the link between fertility and financial incentives by estimating and simulating a joint structural model …

use the GSS to examine the fertility of women born in the US but from different ethnic backgrounds. We take lagged values …This paper attempts to disentangle the direct effects of experience from those of culture in determining fertility. We … of the total fertility rate in woman’s country of ancestry as the cultural proxy and use the woman’s number of siblings …

to men's. Second, increasing women's relative wages reduces fertility by raising the cost of children more than household …This paper examines a novel mechanism linking fertility and growth. There are three components to the model. First …, increases in capital per worker raise women's relative wages, since capital is more complementary to women's labour input than …

in fertility levels. Changes in union formation and fertility levels, on the other hand, do have a significant impact on …

a gender wage gap, associated with lower female labour force participation rates and higher fertility. This paper … presents a growth model where saving, fertility and labour market participation are endogenously determined, and there is wage … through an increase in fertility. We find that for several countries a large fraction of the actual difference in output per …