This paper studies the impact of culture on the fertility decisions of adolescent women. To identify this effect, we … use the epidemiological approach, exploiting the variations in fertility rates of teen women by ancestor’s home country …. Then, differences in fertility rates of adolescent women by national origin can be considered as supporting evidence of the …

Economic theories of fertility decline often center on the rising net price of children. But empirical tests of such … household’s own children. Using a panel dataset of white Southern households between 1850 and 1870, I measure the fertility … household fertility rates. To further corroborate these results, I measure the fertility response of households to another shock …

. When child mortality falls from lower prevalence, as in western Europe, labor productivity improves, fertility falls and …

Twin births are often used as an instrument for fertility in models investigating the impact of family size on labour … market and child outcomes. However, a large share of twin births (24% in our sample) are the result of fertility treatments … show that (a) mothers with and without fertility treatment are different, (b) twin births are still random after …

policies affecting fertility, migration and human capital accumulation on growth and poverty alleviation. It underlines the … the return to education would trigger a virtuous cycle of fertility control, investment in education, poverty alleviation …

fertility. The major finding through the random effects approach is that the social trust increases the fertility rate. A 1 …% rise in the trust rate leads to an increase in fertility by 0.01 points. The results presented here suggest that in …

barrier to participate in the labor market and depresses fertility. …

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