Legalization of abortion in the 1970s represents a major cultural change: it gives women a higher degree of freedom to … directly control their fertility, allowing them to ultimately decide upon children without man's consent and to decrease … analyzed through its direct consequences on fertility and fertility technology, primarily on women actually experiencing an …

This article analyzes the relationship between abortion and female education. It provides new empirical evidence from … sub-Saharan Africa to show that more liberal abortion policies are associated with a higher female secondary school … enrollment. It is assumed in the model that easier access to abortion decreases probability of dropping out of school for a …

largely contemporaneous diffusion of access to abortion. Estimates using a new panel of data on state policies related to … access to the pill and abortion indicate that while access to the pill may have played a role in the sexual revolution, it … legalization of abortion and the enactment of laws permitting young unmarried women to consent to it led to substantial delays in …

Micro-level relationships between union formation or dissolution and childbearing have implications for fertility that … variation and change around replacement level fertility. On the one hand, union dissolution reduces opportunities for conceiving …' children. The balance between these two opposing forces and their implications for fertility levels is unknown and will depend …

declines in fertility of about 17%. Household data from 1996 confirm that this decline in surviving fertility persisted for … Bangladesh have many dimensions extending well beyond fertility reduction, which do not appear to dissipate after two decades. …

We study the effect of child care costs on the fertility behavior of Swedish women and find that reductions in child … care charges influence fertility decisions, even when costs are initially highly subsidized. Exploiting the exogenous … costs on fertility in a context in which child care enrolment is almost universal and the labor force participation of …

the lowest fertility rates in Europe. However, they differ in the level of public support for families and the role of …

by prior research. This study investigates how female scientists' fertility behaviour relates to their childbearing …

the sample. Up to now, very little was known about the fertility behaviour of academic women in Austria, but also in other … modern societies. The current sample - although very selective - will allow new insights in the fertility behaviour and in …