Caucutt, Elizabeth M.; Guner, Nezih; Knowles, John - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 5 (2002) 4, pp. 815-855
This paper explores the interaction between wage inequality and the marriage and fertility decisions of young women. We … fertility. We show how patterns of fertility timing in U.S. data can be explained by the incentives for fertility delay implied … women's wages and fertility timing and the changes over the past 40 years in married women's fertility timing and labor …