particularly relevant to policies for dealing with the gender pay gap and below-replacement fertility rates, both thought to be …

affects fertility in China. China has deep concerns with both population size and female employment, so the relationship … variable to isolate the effect of employment on fertility. Female employment reduces a married woman’s preferred number of …

higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …

-friendly occupations. We estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of fertility, occupational choice, and labor supply using detailed survey and …-female wage gap as it evolves from labor market entry onward and the effect of pro-fertility policies. We show that a substantial … portion of the gender wage gap is explainable by realized and expected fertility and that the long-run effect of policies …

its total fertility rate. At the household level, it has also been well documented that children's education is negatively … policymakers and researchers evaluate the total benefit of family planning policies, both policies to lower fertility and policies …

Since 1989 fertility and family formation have declined sharply in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet … Union. Fertility rates are converging on - and sometimes falling below - rates in Western Europe, most of which are below …

inflows and fertility rates. …