This paper considers why fertility has fallen to historically low levels in virtually all high-income countries. Using … cohort data, we document rising childlessness at all observed ages and falling completed fertility. This cohort perspective … underscores the need to explain long-run shifts in fertility behavior. We review existing research and conclude that period …

This paper studies the determinants of fertility in a panel of 150 developing and developed nations. The paper finds … affect fertility of the developed countries, but they do not have robust effects on fertility in the developing world. The … male labor-force participation rate is important in explaining fertility in developing countries and it has a bigger …

through 1995, this paper demonstrates how changes in relative cohort size appear to have affected patterns of fertility across … demographic transition, appears to act as the mechanism of transmission which determines when the fertility portion of the … material well-being, setting in motion a "cascade" or "snowball" effect in which total fertility rates tumble as social norms …

of fertility as it applies to fertility behavior in developed economies. The chapter reviews the literature on dynamic … models of fertility behavior over the parents' life cycle, and outlines the ways in which these models extend the static … models and the implications that they provide for dimensions of fertility behavior. The chapter also discusses various …