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 …

We study workplace peer effects in fertility decisions using a game theory model of strategic interactions among … important consideration, beyond simply if they work, in predicting population fertility. …