How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by …, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower rates of marriage and fertility, higher nonmarital births and reduced … bargaining power within marriage for women most affected by war deaths. The impact of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family …

fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a decline … family life are stressed. …

second child. Next, I show that the increase in family size caused by this relaxation in the One Child Policy increased …

This article provides a comparative analysis of fertility and family transformations and policy responses in Austria … quarter of century. During this period both societies also grew surprisingly similar in their fertility and family patterns … and main family policy trends. Fertility in both countries is relatively low, but not extremely low when compared with the …

We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated … with sisters obtain lower education and give birth earlier than women with brothers. Our analysis shows that the family …

fertility. We highlight four factors that facilitate combining a career with a family: family policy, cooperative fathers …In this survey, we argue that the economic analysis of fertility has entered a new era. First-generation models of … fertility choice were designed to account for two empirical regularities that, in the past, held both across countries and …

We study the impact of restricting child-related social assistance to the first two children in the family on the … fertility of third and subsequent births. As of April 2017, all third and subsequent born children to low-income families in the …-order fertility among lowincome families. However, compared to earlier research in the UK and elsewhere, largely based on benefit …

first child raised fertility and increased the probability that the family was living without a father. We find that for our … associated with lower fertility, particularly for natives. Thus, by the 2008-2013 period, any apparent son preference in … fertility decisions appears to have been outweighed by factors such as cost concerns in raising girls or increased female …