Do Cross-National Differences in the Costs of Children Generate Cross-National Differences in Fertility Rates?

By Thomas A. DiPrete, S. Philip Morgan, H. Engelhardt, Hana Pacalova. 2003

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Consequences of Family Policies on Childbearing Behavior: Effects or Artifacts? (2007, background): “They regard the incoherence between these realms as a cause for the low fertility and argue that a greater concurrence between these realms leads to higher fertility levels (McDonald 2000a, b; Billari 2004; DiPrete et al. 2003).”
The impact of family policies on fertility in industrialized countries: a review of the literature (2007, background): “A positive impact of reduced childcare cost and increased childcare availability on fertility was also observed by Diprete et al. (2003) and Del Boca et al. (2003) on the basis of their multi-country analyses.”
Gender‐Role Ideology, Labor Market Institutions, and Post‐industrial Fertility (2016, result): “Empirical studies linking family policies and fertility have produced mixed findings (Balbo, Billari, and Mills 2013; Büttner and Lutz 1990; DiPrete et al. 2003; Gauthier 2002, 2007; Gauthier and Hatzius 1997; Kalwij 2010; Neyer and Andersson 2008; Rovny 2011; Sleebos 2003).”
On the Changing Correlation Between Fertility and Female Employment over Space and Time (2002, background): “…in turn determine how easily a woman can combine work and family, i.e. how costly it is for the family when a woman reduces her labour earnings, which again determines how large the wage or career opportunity cost is based on the experienced labour market reduction (cf. DiPrete et al., 2003).”