interventions; (3) the conditions affecting fertility, family time allocation, and human capital investments; and (4) the …

exploit sex composition of children as an exogenous source of variation in family size to account for endogeneity of fertility … with one and more, two and more, and three and more children, I find no significant effect of fertility on female labor …

associated with fertility behavior and use of the local natural-resource base are identified. Three are shown to be pronatalist … that one of the externalities may even provide an invidious link between fertility decisions and the use of the local … natural-resource base. The fourth type of externality is used to develop a theory of fertility transitions in the contemporary …

We explore the effect of female autonomy on individual fertility in Nepal. We find that families where wives have high …

fertility in East Germany. But did it also affect the fertility of future generations? In this paper, I investigate early …

Aiming to boost fertility rates, in 2007 the Spanish government implemented a universal €2500 baby bonus paid to …

that the reform generates sizable changes in employment and fertility decisions, especially among low‐education women. We … employment and fertility among women, as well as long‐run cognitive outcomes among children. A dynamic structural model of … employment, fertility, and child care use is estimated using Norwegian administrative data. The estimation exploits a large …

incentives for fertility should account for spillover effects on existing children. …

market. We end the chapter with a discussion of marriage dissolution and other changes in household structure. Fertility …