-low fertility levels in Italy. Starting from the assumption that childbearing decisions also depend on uncertainty about future … employment, income, and wealth, we empirically assess how fertility intentions are affected by: 1) the deprivation of a quality …

The paper outlines a methodology that allows us to determine whether couples. fertility is supply constrained based on … UTG response, it can be concluded that fertility of many couples in Bangladesh was constrained by supply. …

This study applies count data estimation techniques to investigate the fertility adjustment of immigrants in the … destination country. Data on completed fertility are taken from the 1996 wave of the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP). While the … economic literature stresses the role of prices and incomes as determinants of fertility, the demographic literature discusses …

This paper focuses on the role of the home country's birth rates in shaping immigrant fertility. We use the German … Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to study completed fertility of first generation immigrants who arrived from different countries … ; fertility ; socialization ; underdispersion …

This study applies count data estimation techniques to investigate the fertility adjustment of immigrants in the … destination country. Data on completed fertility are taken from the 1996 wave of the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP). While the … economic literature stresses the role of prices and incomes as determinants of fertility, the demographic literature discusses …

Based on a structural model of fertility and female labour force supply with unobserved heterogeneity and state … generous earnings-related transfer. The model predicts a short-term fertility effect of about 4%, which is consistent with … recent quasi-experimental evidence. The fertility effect is strongest for first births and increases with income. We use the …

We estimate a structural life-cycle model of fertility and female labour supply and use it to evaluate the effects of a … childcare are found to have substantial fertility effects. Without these measures, completed fertility is estimated to be lower … a negligible effect on fertility. …

The negative association between fertility and female labour supply is complicated by the endogeneity of fertility. We … nature prevents some women from achieving their desired fertility levels. Despite a widely-documented reduction of female …