fertility among minor women, aged 21 or younger, for whom access restrictions were most drastically lifted. We then evaluate how … examining its impact on female fertility control and human capital formation. We find that younger women who grew up in more …

conservative areas were more likely to delay fertility/marriage and to accumulate human capital in the long run. We then show how …

; religion ; fertility …

Economic factors are rather an obvious determinant of fertility, as also suggested by "Beckerian" theory. However …, culture is less tangible and less direct factor for fertility. In this paper, the main question is whether culture, as … suggested by "Synthesis" among other theories, is a determinant of fertility in culturally diverse Europe. Using panel-data for …

sex-selective abortions, the fertility decisions of Armenian, Georgian, and Azeri parents living in Russia in the late …

first child raised fertility and increased the probability that the family was living without a father. We find that for our … associated with lower fertility, particularly for natives. Thus, by the 2008-2013 period, any apparent son preference in … fertility decisions appears to have been outweighed by factors such as cost concerns in raising girls or increased female …

first child raised fertility and increased the probability that the family was living without a father. We find that for our … associated with lower fertility, particularly for natives. Thus, by the 2008-2013 period, any apparent son preference in … fertility decisions appears to have been outweighed by factors such as cost concerns in raising girls or increased female …

affects their fertility and educational attainment. For this study, we codify the legal history of all TRAP laws ever …