retirement age aiming at offsetting the effects on the supply of labor following fertility changes. The authors find that the … retirement age should increase more than proportionally to the direct fall in labor supply caused by a fall in fertility. The …

fertility. It builds a model in which industries differ in the extent to which they use female relative to male labor and … fertility. This is because female wages and therefore the opportunity cost of children are higher in those countries. The paper … demonstrates empirically that countries with comparative advantage in industries employing primarily women exhibit lower fertility …

transformation away from the agricultural sector, female education, and fertility rates. These facts are consistent with …

considers a country in Sub-Saharan Africa and finds that parental gender preferences do affect fertility behavior and shape …

This article investigates the causal relationship between women's schooling and fertility by exploiting variation … year of schooling led to a reduction in fertility. An investigation of the underlying mechanisms linking schooling and … fertility finds that the decline in fertility is associated with an increase in labor market opportunity and a reduction in …

This paper examines the effect of fertility on parental labor force participation in a developing country in the … address the potential endogeneity in the fertility decision, the analysis exploits the Albanian parental preference for having …-section of parents with at least two children, the analysis finds a positive and statistically significant effect of fertility on …

since the late 1980s. Despite rising growth, fertility decline, and rising wages and education levels, married women's labor …