IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Can internal migration foster convergence in regional fertility rates? Evidence from 19th Century France' in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (620), 1618-1692

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

forthcoming in: Journal of Health Economics

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

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2019, 54 (1), 79-121

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

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (2), 27-57

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: Journal of Development Studies, 2017, 53 (6). Open access

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), 1823â€“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, Yossef 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