This study explored how social pressure related to parental preference for the sex of their children affects fertility … for the post-war generation. Results suggest that social pressure related to giving birth to a son led to high fertility … in the pre-war generation; however, fertility was not influenced by social pressure in the post-war generation. This was …

This study explored how social pressure related to parental preference for the sex of their children affects fertility … related to giving birth to a son led to high fertility in the pre-war generation; however, fertility was not influenced by …

This study explored how social pressure related to parental preference for the sex of their children affects fertility … for the post-war generation. Results suggest that social pressure related to giving birth to a son led to high fertility … in the pre-war generation; however, fertility was not influenced by social pressure in the post-war generation. …

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 …

among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …

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 …

estimate probabilities of marriage, both within and outside of one’s social class as functions of age. We find the overwhelming …, particularly older ones, marry commoners and slaves in significant numbers. We document significant differences in the marriage … patterns for craftsmen, as opposed to other commoners. We find strong influences of father and mother’s status on marriage …