TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Doepke, Matthias
AU  - Tertilt, Michèle
        TI  - Women's Empowerment, the Gender Gap in Desired Fertility, and Fertility Outcomes in Developing Countries
        PY  - 2018/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 11262
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp11262
        AB  - We document evidence on preferences for childbearing in developing countries. Across countries, men usually desire larger families than women do. Within countries, we find wide dispersion in spouses' desired fertility: there are many couples whose ideal family size differs by five children or more. This disagreement between spouses suggests that the extent to which women are empowered should matter for fertility choices. We point to evidence at both the macro and micro levels that this is indeed the case. We conclude that taking account of household bargaining and women's empowerment in analyses of fertility is an important challenge for research.
        KW  - desired fertility
KW  - women's empowerment
KW  - marital bargaining
        ER  -