determination of quantity and quality of children by parents, we instrument family size with the gender of the first child which is …

In this paper it is proposed that high rural fertility in Latin America is a deliberate and rational adjustment to the … institution in much of Latin America, contains a set of powerful fertility inducements which are lost when households face a wage …-labor situation in agriculture or in cities. Thus, the rapid decline of rural fertility in the past decade in Latin America may be due …

childbearing on subsequent educational attainment, family structure, labor market outcomes and financial self-sufficiency. In …) estimators for the consequences of teen mothers not delaying their childbearing, using data from the National Longitudinal Survey … of Youth, 1979 (NLSY79). Our major finding is that many of the negative consequences of not delaying childbearing until …

on children ever born. These parity data, along with own-children estimates of age-specific overall and marital fertility … rates, are used to examine the relation of fertility with rural-urban residence, occupation, ethnicity, literacy, and … data provide direct evidence of fertility decline in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century …

We examine the impact of educational attainment on fertility and mating market outcomes. Using a regression … binding for a quarter of the population. Simple plots of the raw data show substantially lower teen fertility rates across the … threshold of the reform, but no impacts on abortions and no impact on completed fertility by age 45. In the mating market, the …

siblings to capture her direct family experience. We find that both variables are significant determinants of fertility, even …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 …

Fathers' multiple-partner fertility (MPF) is associated with substantially worse educational outcomes for children. We …. Resource competition with the children in the father's first family does not explain the differences in educational outcomes …

affects fertility in China. China has deep concerns with both population size and female employment, so the relationship … prospects affect fertility. Then a well-validated instrumental variable isolates this effect. Female employment reduces a …