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 …

This paper gives a description of fertility influence on education level of population and its well-being. We carry out …

We address the relationship between family policies and fertility in Norway, including three somewhat different … fertility outcomes, there is wide heterogeneity in how they respond to the policies. …

-quality model of fertility, a large and growing body of empirical research has used binary instruments to estimate LATEs of family … they possess some knowledge of the idiosyncratic effects in the fertility decision. …

special importance. As a consequence, mortality affects fertility differently according to how much the government sector has …, the effect of decreasing mortality on fertility is found to be positive, while at a later stage, with higher levels of …

that marriage and fatherhood has a preventive effect on crime, with marriage receiving most support by empirical research …. The last decades’ major changes in family patterns warrant a re-examination of the marriage effect. We argue that marriage …

examine whether these state-level mandates were successful in increasing fertility rates. Using a difference …

Bangladesh has experienced rapid fertility decline and reductions in under-five mortality over the last three decades …