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112 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12328
The Effects of Conflict on Fertility: Evidence from the Genocide in Rwanda
Kati Kraehnert, Tilman Brück, Michele Di Maio, Roberto Nistico
published in: Demography, 2019, 56 (3), 935-968
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12308
Discrimination in Hiring Based on Potential and Realized Fertility: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment
Sascha O. Becker, Ana Fernandes, Doris Weichselbaumer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12289
Birth Order, Fertility, and Child Height in India and Africa
Dean Spears, Diane Coffey, Jere R. Behrman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12272
Evaluating Welfare and Economic Effects of Raised Fertility
Krzysztof Makarski, Joanna Tyrowicz, Magda Malec
forthcoming in: Population and Development Review, 2019
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12186
Socialized Healthcare and Women's Fertility Decisions
Resul Cesur, Pinar Mine Gunes, Erdal Tekin, Aydogan Ulker
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12023
Does Paternity Leave Reduce Fertility?
Lídia Farré, Libertad Gonzalez
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11937
Strategic Fertility Behaviour, Early Childhood Human Capital Investments and Gender Roles in Albania
Louise Grogan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11878
The Twin Instrument: Fertility and Human Capital Investment
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Damian Clarke
Revise & resubmit: Journal of the European Economic Association
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11875
The Effects of Trade Exposure on Marriage and Fertility Choices: Evidence from Brazil
Breno Braga
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11744
Social Norms and Fertility
Sunha Myong, JungJae Park, Junjian Yi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11716
Fertility and Labor Market Responses to Reductions in Mortality
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Atheendar Venkataramani, Selma Walther
submitted. Revised version here:https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/research/publications/working-papers/iser/2018-15
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11541
Toxic Truth: Lead and Fertility
Karen Clay, Margarita Portnykh, Edson R. Severnini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11531
Girls and Boys: Economic Crisis, Fertility, and Birth Outcomes
Soohyung Lee, Chiara Orsini
forthcoming in: Journal of Applied Econometrics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11511
Pension Policies in a Model with Endogenous Fertility
Giam Pietro Cipriani, Francesco Pascucci
forthcoming in: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2018
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11467
Happily Ever After: Immigration, Natives' Marriage, and Fertility
Michela Carlana, Marco Tabellini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11322
Fertility and the Puzzle of Female Employment in the Middle East
Mahdi Majbouri
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11262
Women's Empowerment, the Gender Gap in Desired Fertility, and Fertility Outcomes in Developing Countries
Matthias Doepke, Michèle Tertilt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10935
Does Broadband Internet Affect Fertility?
Francesco C. Billari, Osea Giuntella, Luca Stella
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10929
Segregation and Fertility: The Case of the Roma in Serbia
Marianna Battaglia, Bastien Chabé-Ferret, Lara Lebedinski
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10865
The Effects of Paternity Leave on Fertility and Labor Market Outcomes
Lídia Farré, Libertad Gonzalez
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10834
Disease and Fertility: Evidence from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Sweden
Nina Boberg-Fazlic, Maryna Ivets, Martin Karlsson, Therese Nilsson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10833
Nonmarital and Teen Fertility
Jason M. Fletcher, Jessica Polos
forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Women
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10757
Fertility Effects of Child Benefits
Regina T. Riphahn, Frederik Wiynck
The paper is forthcoming in the Journal of Population Economics. Please inform your audience.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10559
The Effect of Fertility on Mothers' Labor Supply over the Last Two Centuries
Daniel Aaronson, Rajeev Dehejia, Andrew Jordan, Cristian Pop-Eleches, Cyrus Samii, Karl Schulze
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10465
Fertility, Mortality and Environmental Policy
Ulla Lehmijoki, Tapio K. Palokangas
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10464
Teen Fertility and Labor Market Segmentation: Evidence from Madagascar
Catalina Herrera, David E. Sahn, Kira M. Villa
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10387
Free Primary Education, Schooling, and Fertility: Evidence from Ethiopia
Luke Chicoine
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10385
Inter-ethnic Fertility Spillovers and the Role of Forward-looking Behavior: Evidence from Peninsular Malaysia
Emily A. Beam, Slesh Shrestha
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10351
Rainfall Risk and Fertility: Evidence from Farm Settlements during the American Demographic Transition
Michael Grimm
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10271
On the Quantity and Quality of Girls: New Evidence on Abortion, Fertility, and Parental Investments
S Anukriti, Sonia R. Bhalotra, Hiu Tam
revised and resubmitted: Economic Journal. [Revised version here (Nov 2017): https://www2.bc.edu/s-anukriti/missinggirls.pdf]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10270
Understanding Teenage Fertility, Cohabitation, and Marriage: The Case of Peru
Marta Favara, Pablo Lavado, Alan Sanchez
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10269
Adherence to Cultural Norms and Economic Incentives: Evidence from Fertility Timing Decisions
Bastien Chabé-Ferret
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9945
The Cultural Diffusion of the Fertility Transition: Evidence from Internal Migration in 19th Century France
Guillaume Daudin, Raphaël Franck, Hillel Rapoport
Forthcoming in: The Economic Journal, under the title "Can internal migration foster convergence in regional fertility rates? Evidence from 19th Century France"
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9905
Cutting Fertility? The Effect of Cesarean Deliveries on Subsequent Fertility and Maternal Labor Supply
Martin Halla, Harald Mayr, Gerald J. Pruckner, Pilar Garcia-Gomez
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9498
Education, Health and Fertility of UK Immigrants: The Role of English Language Skills
Yu Aoki, Lualhati Santiago
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9342
Fertility, Household Structure, and Parental Labor Supply: Evidence from Rural China
Hongbin Li, Junjian Yi, Junsen Zhang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9300
From Local to Global: External Validity in a Fertility Natural Experiment
Rajeev Dehejia, Cristian Pop-Eleches, Cyrus Samii
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9299
Short and Long-Term Effects of Unemployment on Fertility
Janet Currie, Hannes Schwandt
published in: PNAS, 2014, 111(41), 14734-14739.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9076
Offline Effects of Online Connecting: The Impact of Broadband Diffusion on Teen Fertility Decisions
Melanie Guldi, Chris M. Herbst
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9023
Political Aspirations in India: Evidence from Fertility Limits on Local Leaders
S Anukriti, Abhishek Chakravarty
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8726
Intrahousehold Decision Making and Fertility
Matthias Doepke, Fabian Kindermann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8614
Can Immigrants Help Women "Have it All"? Immigrant Labor and Women's Joint Fertility and Labor Supply Decisions
Delia Furtado
published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2015, 4 (19)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8613
Gender, Time-Use, and Fertility Recovery in Industrialized Countries
Javier García-Manglano, Natalia Nollenberger, Almudena Sevilla
published in: International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8612
Fixed-Term Employment and Fertility: Evidence from German Micro Data
Wolfgang Auer, Natalia Danzer
revised version published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2016, 62 (4), 595-623
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8609
Fertility Effects on Female Labor Supply: IV Evidence from IVF Treatments
Petter Lundborg, Erik Plug, Astrid Würtz Rasmussen
published as "Can Women Have Children and a Career? IV Evidence from IVF Treatments" in: American Economic Review, June 2017, 107 (6), 1611-37
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8607
Fertility Responses of High-Skilled Native Women to Immigrant Inflows
Delia Furtado
published in: Demography, 2016, 53 (1), 27-53
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8153
Welfare Reform and Immigrant Fertility
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Susan L. Averett, Cynthia Bansak
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29(3), 757-779.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8146
Does Electrification Spur the Fertility Transition? Evidence from Indonesia
Michael Grimm, Robert Sparrow, Luca Tasciotti
published in: Demography, 2015, 52 (5), 1773-1796, [Open Access]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8071
Roadblocks on the Road to Grandma's House: Fertility Consequences of Delayed Retirement
Erich Battistin, Michele De Nadai, Mario Padula
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8044
The Fertility-Sex Ratio Trade-off: Unintended Consequences of Financial Incentives
S Anukriti
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7982
Immigrants and Demography: Marriage, Divorce, and Fertility
Alicia Adsera, Ana Ferrer
published in: Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller (eds.), Handbook on the Economics of International Immigration, 1A, Elsevier, 2015
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7965
The Quiet Revolution and the Family: Gender Composition of Tertiary Education and Early Fertility Patterns
Alena Bicakova, Štepán Jurajda
revised version forthcoming as 'Gender Composition of College Graduates by Field of Study and Early Fertility' in: Review of Economics of the Household [Online First]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7770
Bride Price and Fertility Decisions: Evidence from Rural Senegal
Linguère Mously Mbaye, Natascha Wagner
published in: The Journal of Development Studies, 2017, 53 (6)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7705
Assessing the Impact of the Maternity Capital Policy in Russia Using a Dynamic Model of Fertility and Employment
Fabian Slonimczyk, Anna Yurko
revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 265-281
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7692
The Effects of Intrauterine Malnutrition on Birth and Fertility Outcomes: Evidence from the 1974 Bangladesh Famine
Rey Hernández-Julián, Hani Mansour, Christina Peters
published in: Demography, 2014, 51(5), 1775-1796
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7289
The Fertility of Recent Immigrants to Canada
Alicia Adsera, Ana Ferrer
revised version forthcoming as 'The Fertility of Married Immigrant Women to Canada' in: International Migration Review [Online First]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7135
Delayed First Birth and New Mothers' Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Biological Fertility Shocks
Massimiliano Bratti, Laura Cavalli
revised version published in: European Journal of Population, 2014, 30 (1), 35-63
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6995
The Impact of Teenage Motherhood on the Education and Fertility of their Children: Evidence for Europe
Maria Navarro Paniagua, Ian Walker
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6933
For Some Mothers More Than Others: How Children Matter for Labour Market Outcomes When Both Fertility and Female Employment Are Low
Krzysztof Karbownik, Michal Myck
revised version published in: Economics of Transition, 2016, 24(4), 705-725
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6855
The Declines in Infant Mortality and Fertility: Evidence from British Cities in Demographic Transition
Andrew T. Newell, Ian Gazeley
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6778
Education and Fertility: Evidence from a Policy Change in Kenya
Luke Chicoine
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6707
The Effect of Job Displacement on Couples' Fertility Decisions
Kristiina Huttunen, Jenni Kellokumpu
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 34 (2), 403-442
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6608
Employment Protection and Fertility: Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform
Ervin Prifti, Daniela Vuri
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6527
Declining Fertility and Economic Well-Being: Do Education and Health Ride to the Rescue?
Klaus Prettner, David E. Bloom, Holger Strulik
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6355
Celebrating 150 Years of Analyzing Fertility Trends in Germany
Michael J. Kendzia, Klaus F. Zimmermann
published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 233 (3), 406-422
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6015
More Schooling, More Children: Compulsory Schooling Reforms and Fertility in Europe
Margherita Fort, Nicole Schneeweis, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
substantially revised version published as 'Is Education Always Reducing Fertility? Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reforms' in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (595), 1823–1855
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5885
Re-Visiting the Easterlin Hypothesis: U.S. Fertility 1968-2010
Diane J. Macunovich
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5783
Coverage of Infertility Treatment and Fertility Outcomes: Do Women Catch Up?
Matilde P. Machado, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano
published in: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, 2015, 6(4): 407-439.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5552
Age at Migration, Language and Fertility Patterns among Migrants to Canada
Alicia Adsera, Ana Ferrer
published as 'Factors Influencing the Fertility Choices of Child Immigrants in Canada' in: Population Studies: A Journal of Demography, 2014, 68(1), 65-79
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5502
Fertility and the Plough
Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano, Nathan Nunn
published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (3), 499-503
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4980
The Evolution of Secularization: Cultural Transmission, Religion and Fertility Theory, Simulations and Evidence
Ronen Bar-El, Teresa García-Muñoz, Shoshana Neuman, Yossi Tobol
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (3), 1129-1174
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4557
The Trade-off between Fertility and Education: Evidence from before the Demographic Transition
Sascha O. Becker, Francesco Cinnirella, Ludger Woessmann
published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2010, 15 (3), 177–204
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4503
Can Child Care Policy Encourage Employment and Fertility? Evidence from a Structural Model
Peter Haan, Katharina Wrohlich
published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (4), 498-512
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4473
HIV and Fertility in Africa: First Evidence from Population Based Surveys
Chinhui Juhn, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Belgi Turan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4405
Targeting Fertility and Female Participation Through the Income Tax
Ghazala Azmat, Libertad Gonzalez
published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (3), 487-502
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4306
Fertility Decline and the Heights of Children in Britain, 1886-1938
Timothy J. Hatton, Richard M. Martin
published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2010, 47 (4), 505-519
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4066
Changing Fertility Preferences One Migrant at a Time: The Impact of Remittances on the Fertility Rate
George S Naufal, Carlos Vargas-Silva
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4019
Fertility Changes in Latin America in the Context of Economic Uncertainty
Alicia Adsera, Alicia Menendez
published as 'Fertility changes in Latin America in periods of economic uncertainty' in: Population Studies, 2011, 65 (1), 37 - 56
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3949
Testing the Inverseness of Fertility and Labor Supply: The Case of Ethiopia
Blen Solomon, Jean Kimmel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3912
International Migration, Transfers of Norms and Home Country Fertility
Michel Beine, Frédéric Docquier, Maurice Schiff
published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2013, 46 (4)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3907
Explaining How Delayed Motherhood Affects Fertility Dynamics in Europe
Massimiliano Bratti, Konstantinos Tatsiramos
revised version published as 'The Effect of Delaying Motherhood on the Second Childbirth in Europe' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 25 (1), 291-321
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3853
Fertility and Female Employment Dynamics in Europe: The Effect of Using Alternative Econometric Modeling Assumptions
Pierre-Carl Michaud, Konstantinos Tatsiramos
revised version published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2011, 26 (4), 641 - 668
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3732
The Transmission of Women's Fertility, Human Capital and Work Orientation across Immigrant Generations
Francine D. Blau, Lawrence M. Kahn, Albert Yung-Hsu Liu, Kerry L. Papps
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (2), 405-435
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3587
The Impact of Relative Cohort Size on U.S. Fertility, 1913-2001
Yongil Jeon, Michael P. Shields
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3575
Does Fertility Respond to Financial Incentives?
Guy Laroque, Bernard Salanié
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3526
Fertility in Sub-Saharan African Countries with Consideration to Health and Poverty
Yongil Jeon, Sang-Young Rhyu, Michael P. Shields
published in: African Development Review, 2010, 22 (4), 540–555
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3506
Immigrant Labor, Child-Care Services, and the Work-Fertility Trade-Off in the United States
Delia Furtado, Heinrich Hock
revised version published as "Low Skilled Immigration and Work-Fertility Tradeoffs Among High Skilled US Natives" in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (2), 224-228
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3272
Clash of Career and Family: Fertility Decisions after Job Displacement
Emilia Del Bono, Andrea Weber, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2012, 10 (4), 659 - 683
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3245
Fertility Differences between Married and Cohabiting Couples: A Switching Regression Analysis
Junfu Zhang, Xue Song
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2975
The Fertility Effect of Catastrophe: U.S. Hurricane Births
Richard W. Evans, Yingyao Hu, Zhong Zhao
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (1), 1 - 36 [Details & Download]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2905
Human Capital, Mortality and Fertility: A Unified Theory of the Economic and Demographic Transition
Matteo Cervellati, Uwe Sunde
see IZA DP 7199 for a substantially revised and extended version
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2878
Birth Spacing, Fertility Selection and Child Survival: Analysis Using a Correlated Hazard Model
Pushkar Maitra, Sarmistha Pal
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27 (3), 690-705
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2815
Population Policies, Fertility, Women’s Human Capital, and Child Quality
T. Paul Schultz
published in: T. Paul Schultz and John Strauss (eds.), Handbook of Development Economics, Vol. 4, Amsterdam: North-Holland, Elsevier, 2008
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2783
Altruism, Fertility, and the Value of Children: Health Policy Evaluation and Intergenerational Welfare
Javier A. Birchenall, Rodrigo R. Soares
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93 (1-2), 280-295
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2437
Intergenerational Transmission of Fertility Patterns in Britain
Alison L. Booth, Hiau Joo Kee
published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 71 (2), 183–208
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2285
Life Cycle Employment and Fertility Across Institutional Environments
Daniela Del Boca, Robert M. Sauer
published in: European Economic Review, 2009, 53(3), 274-292
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2192
Is Fertility Related to Religiosity? Evidence from Spain
Pablo Brañas-Garza, Shoshana Neuman
revised version published as 'Is Fertility Indeed Related to Religiosity? A Note on: 'Marital Fertility and Religion in Spain, 1985 and 1999' ' in: Population Studies, 2007, 60 (2), 219-224
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2163
Birth Spacing, Fertility and Neonatal Mortality in India: Dynamics, Frailty and Fecundity
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Arthur van Soest
Journal of Econometrics, 2008, 143 (2), 274-290
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2162
Fertility and its Consequence on Family Labour Supply
Jungho Kim, Arnstein Aassve
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2157
Divorce, Fertility and the Shot Gun Marriage
Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano
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