@article{THESIS,
      recid = {3722},
      author = {Dai, Weifeng},
      title = {Childlessness and Development},
      publisher = {University of Chicago},
      school = {M.A.},
      address = {2022-06},
      number = {THESIS},
      abstract = {This paper leverages harmonized micro-data consisting of  82 million females from 164 household surveys covering 72  unique countries from all income levels to investigate the  relationship between childlessness and development.  Empirically, I find that childlessness rates display a  U-shaped pattern with development at country, subgroups and  individual levels, which contribute to 1/3 of heterogeneity  of aggregate fertility across countries. Moreover, females  in richer countries and those are more educated delay their  fertility, suggested by the life- cycle childlessness  rates. Combining these novel empirical findings, I  construct a two-period model under a parsimonious set of  assumptions to speak to the empirical finding: when the  wage growth effect dominates the wage level effect, females  choose to delay fertility; childlessness is driven by  natural sterilization and different preference for number  of children.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/3722},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.3722},
}