In this paper we study the separate effects of unemployment and job displace- ment on fertility in a sample of white … collar women in Austria. Using an instru- mental variables approach we show that unemployment incidence as such has no … negative effect on fertility decisions, but the very fact of being displaced from a career-oriented job has. Fertility rates …

The United States, unlike most developed countries, does not regulate its fertility industry. Rather, it vests control … market for fertility services, it has also produced an undesirable consequence: a high rate of multiple gestation pregnancies …

the fertility technology. On the opposite, ex post egalitarianism always recommends marginal taxation. …

Since 1989 fertility and family formation have declined sharply in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet … Union. Fertility rates are converging on - and sometimes falling below - rates in Western Europe, most of which are below …