This paper develops a model wherein labor income is affected by work experience; further, it analyzes how the fertility rate is determined. In the case where the wage rate is affected through on-the-job training (OJT) or work experience, the fertility rate converges to a low level or continues to increase. Moreover, this paper demonstrates the effects of two childcare support policies. A childc...

In the demographic literature, the semantics of fertility decline have led to some interesting confusion. In particular, confusion has been caused by the tendency to use interchangeably the terms “global fertility decline” and “global convergence in fertility”. But the two are not the same thing at all. While it is true that it now appears that the whole world has embarked on a process of ferti...

In 2014, Egypt's Demographic and Health Survey (EDHS) documented an increase in the total fertility rate (TFR) to 3.5, up from a low of 3.0 recorded by the 2008 EDHS. The increase has been anecdotally attributed to the social upheaval following Egypt's January 2011 revolution, but little is known about when fertility first began to increase and among which sub-groups of women. Using birth histo...