How does a negative labor demand shock impact individual-level fertility? I analyze this question in the context of the … East German fertility decline after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Exploiting di erential pressure for restructuring … an impact on completed fertility. …

How does a negative labor demand shock impact fertility? I analyze this question in the context of the East German … fertility decline after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. I exploit differential pressure for restructuring across East …. Thus, the demand shock did not only depress the aggregate fertility level but also changed the composition of mothers. My …

took place in a concentrated period of time. Among the latter was a sharp fall in fertility rates, leading to a growing …

increase in fertility rates, particularly for second births among married and older women, providing suggestive evidence of an … increase in completed fertility. Second, we find an increase in overall female employment, likely due to the desire to qualify …

fertility and infant mortality rate. …

fertility and infant mortality rate …

their periods of uncertainty, moreover, these countries have experienced sharply falling fertility rates. Some have argued … its fertility. In view of the results, we argue that an options based theory is perhaps a richer analytical paradigm for a … discussion of fertility decisions in a rapidly changing environment than the traditional Beckerian theory. -- falling fertility …

their periods of uncertainty, moreover, these countries have experienced sharply falling fertility rates. Some have argued … its fertility. In view of the results, we argue that an options based theory is perhaps a richer analytical paradigm for a … discussion of fertility decisions in a rapidly changing environment than the traditional Beckerian theory …