agree on wanting a child. Using newly available data on fertility preferences and outcomes, we show that indeed, babies are … low-fertility countries women are much more likely than men to be opposed to having another child. We account for this … mothers and fathers is a key determinant of fertility. The model implies that fertility is highly responsive to targeted …

Catholic countries of Europe pose a demographic puzzle -fertility is unprecedentedly low (total fertility=1.3) despite …. We use differential declines in service provision --measured by nuns/capita-- to identify its effect on fertility …) has no effect for Protestants, but predicts fertility decline for Catholics. The data suggest that service provision and …

The last 60 years have seen the emergence of a dramatic socioeconomic gradient in marriage, divorce, cohabitation, and … traditional gender-based specialization have declined, the value of marriage has decreased relative to cohabitation, which offers … less desirable or less feasible, commitment and, hence, marriage has less value relative to cohabitation. The resulting …

We investigate the determinants of the fertility decline in Europe from 1830 to 1970 using a newly constructed dataset … new fertility behavior from French-speaking regions to the rest of Europe. We observe that societies with higher education … of linguistic distances between European regions. We find that the fertility decline resulted from a gradual diffusion of …

Europeans restricted their fertility long before the Demographic Transition. By raising the marriage age of women and …-economic institution in history that limited fertility through delayed marriage. Our model emphasizes changes in agricultural production …