in fertility levels. Changes in union formation and fertility levels, on the other hand, do have a significant impact on …

Data from the 1911 Census of England and Wales are examined for evidence of family limitation early in marriage. It is … shown that a substantial number of couples used birth control for 'spacing' as well as 'stopping' fertility. Moreover … good. In general the results obtained do not fit with the 'Princeton' view of the European fertility transition, with its …

increasingly important, emerging as a widely used step on the path to marriage. Out-of-wedlock fertility has also risen, consistent …We document key facts about marriage and divorce, comparing trends through the past 150 years and outcomes across … quarter century. Marriage rates have also been falling, but more strikingly, the importance of marriage at different points in …

greater inequality. To investigate this we construct a dynamic model of intergenerational education acquisition, fertility … fertility and education, a decreasing marginal effect of parental education on children's years of education, and wages that are …

There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household … female participation and fertility, using individual data from the French Labor Force Survey and a fairly detailed … representation of the French tax-benefit system. Our results suggest that financial incentives play a notable role in determining …

here empirically the link between fertility and financial incentives by estimating and simulating a joint structural model … of participation and fertility on a sample of French women. Our results suggest that fertility responds to incentives in … a non-negligible way. The results, however, also have some puzzling features: financial incentives appear to have much …

We study the incentives of parents to invest in their children when these investments improve their marriage prospects …, in a frictionless marriage market with non-transferable utility. Stochastic returns to investment eliminate the …

a marriage match, for instance, may depend both on the incomes and on the educations of the partners, as well as on …

polygyny (multiple wives). Wealth inequality naturally produces multiple wives for rich men in a standard model of the marriage … marriage market is higher in equilibrium as women are valued more for their quality versus quantity of children when human …

We study the joint impact of gender and marital status on financial investment by testing the hypothesis that marriage …