employee retention, staff engagement, job complementarities, coworkers, hospitals, endogeneityAThis paper discusses … research on the relationship between fertility and women's labour force participation. It surveys methods used to obtain causal … across the lifecycle and across successive cohorts; and of recognizing that women's choices over both fertility and labour …

This paper discusses research on the relationship between fertility and women's labour force participation. It surveys … both fertility and labour force participation are subject to multiple constraints. We observe that, while technological … fertility, policy has not achieved as much as it might. …

childbearing age, son bias in stated fertility preferences has weakened and there is an emerging preference for gender balance. We …Historically, son preference has been widely prevalent in South Asia, manifested in the form of skewed sex ratios …, gender differentials in child mortality, and worse educational investments in daughters versus sons. In the present study, we …

experience / Lorna Benton and Marie-Louise Newell -- Declining fertility, television and the (mis) representation of motherhood … children? / Ann Buchanan -- Falling fertility, ageing, and Europe's demographic deficit / Sarah Harper -- The impact on mothers …What is happening to fertility behaviour? -- No time for children? the key questions / Ann Buchanan and Anna Rotkirch …