children increases. In these advanced economies the negative impact on fertility deriving from the fact that fewer pregnancies … are needed to get a boy is more than compensated by the positive effect on fertility deriving from the greater stability …

There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household … female participation and fertility, using individual data from the French Labor Force Survey and a fairly detailed … fertility decisions in France, both for the first and for the third child. As an example, an unconditional child benefit with a …

Fertility has begun to fall in Sub-Saharan Africa but it remains high on average and particularly for a few countries …. This paper examines African fertility using a panel data set of 47 Sub-Saharan countries between 1962 and 2003. Fixed and … results support Caldwell’s hypothesis and are generally supportive of hypothesis that a fertility transition is occurring. HIV …

This paper analyzes the effect of delayed motherhood on fertility dynamics for women living in several European …

productivity, consumption, inter-generational human capital accumulation and desired fertility. Lastly, there is no evidence that …

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source …

approximated by older families' income – on two measures of fertility: the proportion of women with an own child under one year of … increases in fertility among women with higher levels of education over the last decade has been a function of this emerging …

and fertility behavior of teenage women in Turkey using the 2008 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey. We find that the …

in the Journal. Fertility naturally plays an important role in population economics. Its size has decreased significantly … from the 1900s. Long time-series regarding fertility and basic trends in Germany are documented and analyzed. We identify … three different explanatory approaches for the decline in fertility, according to which the various articles of the Journal …