Increases in female employment and falling fertility rates have often been linked to rising female wages. However, over … the last 30 years the US total fertility rate has been fairly stable while female wages have continued to grow. Over the … supply and, due to higher opportunity cost, lower fertility, they also lead to a partial reallocation of home production from …

The main purpose of this paper is to show how the labour market affects Spanish individual fertility decisions. Spain … is an interesting case due to its huge fertility decline. Our hypothesis is that precarious Spanish labour markets (i … hours) postpone first and second birth in any cohort, even accounting for any potential endogeneity between fertility and …

marriage, divorce, widowhood, birth of child, and layoff. However, there is little evidence of adaptation to unemployment. Men …

We examine the vertical transmission of overweight drawing upon a sample of English children, both adopted and non …

, divorce significantly increases the odds that a woman with children is poor. … concluded that divorce has little effect on women's average household income. Employing an Abadie (2003) technique that allows … us to look at the impact of marital breakup throughout the income distribution, however, we find that divorce greatly …

impact of power outages on fertility is an important policy issue. For example, barriers of access to family planning may … translate a temporary increase in fertility into a permanent increase in the population. In addition, if a woman is at a …