mothers and older sisters spend taking care of children aged under 3, using the randomization of the program placement and the … methodology in Lewbel (2000). Results support the existence of substitution effects: mothers in treatment households are more …

reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises because displaced workers undergo a …In this paper we investigate how fertility decisions respond to unexpected career interruptions, which occur as a … displacement reduces average fertility by 5 to 10% in both the short and medium term (3 and 6 years) and that these effects are …

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

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

This paper examines a novel mechanism linking fertility and growth. There are three components to the model. First … to men's. Second, increasing women's relative wages reduces fertility by raising the cost of children more than household … income. Third, lower fertility raises the level of capital per worker. This positive feedback loop generates a demographic …

We investigate the role of grandparental childcare for fertility decisions of their offspring. Exploiting pension … arrangements, investment in education or labor supply. Given the Italian lowest low fertility, we conclude that pension reforms may …

endogenous savings, fertility, labor force participation, and gender wage discrimination, we demonstrate how economic development … fertility, and higher income. We use data from the World Value Survey and the International Social Survey Program and show that …-discriminatory men become the majority. We then exploit the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth in the U.S. to examine how men change …