After the fall of the Berlin wall, the total fertility rate in East Germany tumbled from 1.7 (1989) to a stunning 0 … suggest that women postpone fertility when the wage penalty for time off work in the current period are high; and the … fertility decline and demonstrate that incentives in the labor market have a strong influence on fertility decisions. …

We present a growth model where savings, fertility, labour force participation and gender wage discrimination are … positive cycle of high female participation, low fertility and high growth. Our empirical study is in two parts. Firstly, we …

Alike most of the Western world, the Danish fertility rate declined throughout the 20th century simultaneous to … economic growth. This development, which conflicts with economic intuition, has been denoted the fertility paradox, and several … the fertility rate during the years 1982 to 2004. Several factors commonly believed to explain the variation in the …

We estimate the effects of college education on female fertility – a so far understudied margin of education, which we …-career effect on fertility. Coupled with higher labor-supply and wage returns for non-mothers as compared to mothers the timing …

determinants of fertility can be measured when at risk rather than ex-post, thus helping to reduce the risk of reverse causality … average, a different birth history trajectory, but with negligible curtailment of completed fertility. …

constitutes indeed for some females a barrier to participate in the labor market and depresses fertility. …

couples also bargain over fertility. In contrast to earlier tests of bargaining models, our empirical approach makes use of … for fertility decisions. Our results also indicate that couples are not able to fully commit to household resource … that the effect of child benefits on fertility could be enhanced by directing transfers to women. …

higher-order fertility. I use a differences-in-differences design to investigate the introduction of a German law in 2001 …

situated at all wealth levels, the relevant downstream effects of schooling - measured by fertility, literacy and employment … reduced fertility through policy induced education, while there are almost no effects of additional education for non …-poor women. Our findings help in evaluating the generalisability of the nexus between women's education and fertility as well as …