This paper makes contributions to the estimation of health production functions and the economics of fertility control … the decision of a pregnant woman to give birth or obtain an abortion into economic models of fertility control and use …

affects fertility …

This article demonstrates the value of microdata for understanding the effect of wages on life cycle fertility dynamics …. Conventional estimates of neoclassical economic fertility models obtained from linear aggregate time series regressions are widely …. This article demonstrates, that when neoclassical models of fertility are estimated on microdata using methods that …

; the relation between income growth and income and fertility distributions; and the relevance of human capital in …, knowledge spillover effects play a key role. The analysis offers new insights for understanding the decline in fertility below … population replacement rate in many developed countries; the evolution of income and fertility distributions across developing …

fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a …

Fertility change is distinct from other forms of social and economic change because it directly alters the size and … composition of the next generation. This paper studies how changes in population composition over the fertility transition feed … back into the evolution of average fertility across generations. Theory predicts that changes in the relationship between …

at aiding families. The outcomes of interest are female employment, gender gaps in earnings and fertility. We begin with …

Fertility rates have long been falling in many developed countries while educational attainment in these countries has … effects of education on these decreases in fertility. Specifically, we find that education “compresses” the fertility …