This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and …

the legal costs of divorce, on the interrelationships among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …

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 … fertility decisions in France, both for the first and for the third child. As an example, an unconditional child benefit with a …

predicts lower future pensions to reduce fertility, while the “old-age security” to increase it. Our empirical analysis … identifies a clear and robust positive effect of less generous future pensions on post-reform fertility. These findings are … consistent with “old-age security” even for contemporary fertility. …

What role does affordable and widely available public child care play for fertility? We exploit a major German reform … fertility. The fertility effects are more pronounced at the intensive than at the extensive margin, and are not driven by tempo … effects or selective migration. Our findings inform policy makers concerned about suboptimally low fertility by suggesting …

In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits …

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in England and …