High-income countries have generally experienced falling fertility in recent decades. In most
of these countries, the total fertility rate is now below the level that implies a stable …

Numerous studies aim to connect negative fertility desires and outcomes with employment
conditions deemed to be uncertain. However, there is a lack of consensus about how to …

South Korea and other developed regions in East Asia have become forerunners of
prolonged lowest-low fertility. South Korea's total fertility rate has been below 1.3 for two …

The negative correlation between women's education and fertility has been observed across
regions and time, although it is now weaker among high-income countries. Women's …

Fertility in the US exhibits an increasingly more procyclical pattern. We argue that women's
breadwinner status is behind procyclical and lower fertility:(i) women's relative income in the …

This study examines the impact of a relaxation of internal migration restrictions on internal
migrants' fertility in China. Exploiting the variation in the city-by-city rollout of the Hukou …

Family formation is fostered by circumstances of plannability and economic and social
stability. Conversely, as documented in previous literature, employment instability can …

Fertility in the US exhibits an increasingly more procyclical pattern. We argue that women's
breadwinner status is behind procyclical fertility:(i) women's relative income in the family has …

Abstract We test Le Play's (1875) hypothesis that the French Revolution contributed to
France's early fertility decline. In 1793, a series of inheritance reforms abolished local …

The Covid-19 pandemic and related massive spread of home based work led to substantial
changes in the conditions for combining work and childbearing. On the one hand, working …