This paper compares the work attachment of French and German women after childbirth. Both fertility and employment of …

a gender wage gap, associated with lower female labor force participation rates and higher fertility. This paper … presents a growth model where saving, fertility and labor market participation are endogenously determined, and there is wage … increase in fertility. We find that for several countries a large fraction of the actual difference in output per capita …

education, higher fertility rates and higher child mortality. Moreover, social institutions related to gender inequality are …

In this paper we analyze the distribution of fertility rates across the world using parametric mixture models. We … demonstrate the existence of twin peaks and the division of the world's countries in two distinct components: a high-fertility … regime and a low fertility regime. Whereas the significance of twin peaks vanishes over time, the two fertility regimes …

cause of death with parents' labour market outcomes, health outcomes, marital status, and subsequent fertility. We exploit …

economic growth, (2) economic development accompanies more investment in human capital and lower fertility due to the quantity …-quality tradeoff, and (3) current low level of fertility corresponds to too low support ratios for keeping up with the frontier …

, as are black-white fertility differentials. However, little is known on how first birth postponement and childlessness … differ between women with college and postgraduate education. Likewise, black-white fertility differentials among women with …. We use the CPS Fertility Supplement 1979-2012 to estimate first birth survival functions for black and white women with …

"Underachieving" fertility desires is more common among women with higher levels of education and those who delay the … marriage postponement explains lower fertility among the highly educated, is not well understood. In this paper, we use data … and women, focusing on the role of union formation timing in achieving fertility goals over the life course. We expand on …

substantially which is the outcome of two main trends - fertility and migration. The study of the origin (country of birth) of …