Many studies have documented a negative association between macroeconomic indicators and fertility in times of economic …-cohorts of white women who entered the age of 34-36 years old being childless before the crisis, in 2004, and at the onset of the … crisis, in 2007. Our identification strategy relies on the assumption that these two adjacent cohorts of women differ only …

the use of the plough in traditional agriculture. In societies that did not use the plough, women tended to participate in …

of initially childless men and women in the UK. Those individuals who are committed to a green lifestyle are found to be …

Since the onset of democracy in 1975, both total fertility and Mass attendance rates in Spain have dropped dramatically …. I use the 1985 and 1999 Spanish Fertility Surveys to study whether the significance of religion in fertility behavior … practicing and non-practicing Catholics, practicing Catholics portray significantly higher fertility during recent years. In the …

The Nordic countries have remarkably high participation rates of mothers and a moderate decrease of fertility rates …-friendly policies on women's position in the labor market? Is the 'Nordic model' a model to aspire to? …

and dissolution, fertility, female time allocation, education, wages, and wealth. Using a theoretical framework based on …

, labor supply and wealth accumulation; union formation and dissolution; and fertility. The paper also comments on the growing …

Ireland’s relatively late and feeble fertility transition remains poorly-understood. The leading explanations stress … Ireland to study fertility in Dublin and Belfast. Our larger project aims to use the extensive literature on the fertility … those used in previous studies of Irish fertility, and is the first from an urban area. We find considerable support for the …

a gender wage gap, associated with lower female labor force participation rates and higher fertility. This paper … presents a growth model where saving, fertility and labor market participation are endogenously determined, and there is wage … increase in fertility. We find that for several countries a large fraction of the actual difference in output per capita …