This paper empirically examines the life-time joint decision problem of marriage, childbearing, and labor force … participation for women in Japan, motivated by the recent decrease in the number of marriages and the total fertility rate. Using … generally insignificant. Utility gains and losses from marriage are significantly negative if one leaves out financial …

We study the effect of fertility on labor supply in Argentina and Mexico exploiting a source of exogenous variability … both qualitatively and quantitatively to the populations of two developing countries where, compared to the US, fertility …

of a cash-for-care (CFC) policy introduced in Norway in 1998, and compare the fertility behaviour of eligible and … a slower progression to both second and third births, and short term fertility is hence lower in this group. The …

recognition between men and women that provides a microfoundation for the institution of marriage. In the model, men and women …. As a socially sanctioned commitment device among partners, the institution of marriage reduces this risk by restraining … societal, economic, and technological changes in their effects on marriage patterns. A combination of factors is argued to …

tending to be observed more and more frequently outside the formal framework of marriage. In both cases, the fact that women …

empowerment and child mortality via early marriage, defined as marriage before age 16. There exist three channels through which … early marriage reduces a mother's ability to take good care of her children: the harmful physical consequences of early sex … allows us to isolate the empowerment effect of early marriage. We estimate that it increases the probability that the mother …

While fertility is positively correlated across generations, the causal effect of children's experience with larger … sibships on their own fertility in adulthood is poorly understood. Using the sex composition of the two first-born children as … an instrumental variable, we estimate the effect of sibship size on adult fertility. Estimations are done on high …

simultaneous but opposite influence on fertility. This empirical paper aims to test the concomitance of these effects using the …

that the correlation between earnings and fertility has become more positive over time for women but is virtually unchanged … men. I suggest that decreasing opportunity costs of motherhood as well as strategic timing of fertility to reduce wage …