We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel … aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports countercyclical teenage fertility. … teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the German case. We find that teenage fertility is associated with …

this change. I find that women facing high unemployment rates in their mid-twenties tend to restrict their fertility below … fertility has widened in Spain. The paper uses the 1985 and 1999 Spanish Fertility Surveys to study whether the tightening of … family and of achieving preferred fertility. Temporary contracts work in the opposite direction. Findings are robust to the …

largely contemporaneous diffusion of access to abortion. Estimates using a new panel of data on state policies related to … access to the pill and abortion indicate that while access to the pill may have played a role in the sexual revolution, it … legalization of abortion and the enactment of laws permitting young unmarried women to consent to it led to substantial delays in …

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 …

Health Survey data from ten countries. We find that periods of relative high unemployment are associated with lower fertility …We explore the relation between fertility and the business cycle in Latin American countries taking advantage of the … existing cross-country and within-country differences in both fertility and macroeconomic conditions. First, we use a panel of …

unemployment since the mid 1980s. Moreover, the paper examines how fertility varies, for a similar level of unemployment, as a …Cross-country differences in both the age at first birth and fertility are substantial in Europe. The paper uses the … European Community Household Panel 1994-2000 to investigate the relationship between unemployment of both women (and their …

Previous studies have suggested that more liberal abortion laws should lead to a decrease in marriage rates among young … hypothesis. This paper presents an alternative theory of abortion access and marriage based on asymmetric information, which … suggests that more liberal abortion laws may actually promote young marriage. An empirical examination of marriage data from …

incentives to sex-select as fertility approaches its target. …

We analyse various pathways through which access to electricity affects fertility, using a pseudo-panel of Indonesian … results suggest that the subsequent effects on fertility account for about 18 to 24 percent of the overall decline in the … fertility rate, depending on the specification. A key channel through which electrification affects fertility is increased …