I specify a dynamic life-cycle model of abortion, contraceptive use, schooling, and labor supply decisions of US women … decrease abortion rates substantially, while also leading to an increase in women's schooling …. I structurally estimate the model, allowing for abortion misreporting, using data from the NLSY97, aggregate abortion …

implies that estimates of impacts of fertility on parental investments and on women's labour supply that use twin births to … and poorer countries, evident even among women who do not use IVF, and hold for numerous different measures of health. We … discuss potential mechanisms, showing evidence that favours selective miscarriage. Positive selection of women into twinning …

We investigate women's fertility, labor and marriage market responses to large declines in child and maternal mortality … that occurred following a major medical innovation in the US. In response to the decline in child mortality, women delayed … childbearing and had fewer children overall. Fewer women had three or more children, and a larger share remained childless. We …

Legalization of abortion in the 1970s represents a major cultural change: it gives women a higher degree of freedom to … analyzed through its direct consequences on fertility and fertility technology, primarily on women actually experiencing an … women that face abortion as an actual opportunity, without necessarily experiencing one. Although indirect, this impact may …

higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare … home. Frontier women were less likely to report “gainful employment,” but among those who did, relatively more had high …-status occupations. Together, these findings integrate contrasting narratives about frontier women—some emphasizing their entrepreneurial …

This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility … and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high … skilled US-born women in cities that have experienced larger immigrant inflows. Most interestingly, these changes have been …

among women who are most likely to consider childcare costs when making fertility decisions - namely, married women with a … the types of women who have stronger fertility relative to labor supply responses to immigrant-induced changes in … childcare industry, this paper examines whether college-educated native women respond to immigrant-induced lower cost and …

particularly relevant to policies for dealing with the gender pay gap and below-replacement fertility rates, both thought to be … services and high-skilled women respond by working more or having more children. …

female labor supply and fertility. However, particularly in the last decade or so, the relationship across countries has been … positive: for example countries like Germany, Italy and Spain with the lowest fertility rates also have the lowest female … female labor supply and higher fertility. These results are strengthened when we take account of the heterogeneity among …