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ECONOMIC GROWTH CENTER YALE UNIVERSITY P.O. Box 208269 27 Hillhouse Avenue New Haven, CT 06520-8269 CENTER DISCUSSION PAPER NO. 769 BABY BOOM OR BUST? CHANGING FERTILITY IN POST-COMMUNIST CZECH REPUBLIC AND SLOVAKIA Robert S. Chase Yale University November 1996 Note: Center Discussion Papers are preliminary materials circulated to stimulate discussions and critical comments. Dr. Chase was a Ph.D. candidate in the Economics Department and is presently an Olin Postdoctoral Fellow at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies. Financial Support for this research was provided by The Mellon Foundation Area Studies Grant Program. I would like to thank my Czech collaborators Pavel Mahonín, Petr Mateju and Jiri Vecerník for enabling this empirical work to proceed; T. Paul Schultz and Jenny Hunt for guidance and helpful comments; Kathy Terrell and Daniel Munich for allowing me to use their district level data. BABY BOOM OR BUST? Changing Fertility in Post-Communist Czech Republic and Slovakia Robert S. Chase Abstract Transition from a centrally planned to a market oriented economy alters the incentives individuals face as they make consumption and time a