We study the effect of fertility on labor supply in Argentina and Mexico exploiting a source of exogenous variability … both qualitatively and quantitatively to the populations of two developing countries where, compared to the US, fertility …

Instrumental variables (IV) estimates of the effect of fertility on female labor supply have only been able to identify … the causal effect of second and higher-parity children. This study uses exogenous variation in fertility caused by the …

We study the effect of fertility on maternal labor supply in Argentina and Mexico exploiting a source of exogenous …, compared to the US, fertility is known to be higher, female education levels are much lower and there are fewer formal …

production. The ``organization'' of society is determined endogenously, and depends on agricultural technology and population … agents own their labor. In this process, the role of population growth switches from being a force driving the transition … the 19th century US which had sparser population had a larger percentage slaves in the population. …

This paper examines the effects of married women's employment on their fertility behavior in the United States. Data … transition to third pregnancy. In addition, this paper demonstrates that an appropriate method of modeling the fertility and …

participation for women in Japan, motivated by the recent decrease in the number of marriages and the total fertility rate. Using … that women benefit from labor force participation, and that this gain exceed financial benefits from earnings. However, the …

This paper analyzes qualitatively and quantitatively the e ects of declining mortality rates on fertility, education … in each child. Once mortality is endogenized, population growth becomes a hump-shaped function of income per capita. At … low levels of income population growth rises as income per capita rises leading to a Malthusian steady-state equilibrium …