of the family. The discussion references many papers from anthropology and biology. Because of the intimate connection … between the family and reproduction, it should not be surprising that there is much to be learned about the economics of the … family from the study of evolutionary biology. Given the increased prevalence in recent decades of unwed parenthood, divorce …

there differences among genders? Does “family” have an impact? Is the effect of family related variables similar among … internationally, especially in direction of the United States. The impact of the “family” on the probability of taking a postdoc …

accumulation of human capital during the transition from stagnation to growth. This is because greater longevity raises children …

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

This paper examines the effects of married women's employment on their fertility behavior in the United States. Data … from the National Survey of Family and Households are used in a hazard model to determine whether a woman's employment … transition to third pregnancy. In addition, this paper demonstrates that an appropriate method of modeling the fertility and …

of marriage and two children as a typical family unit is negative for women in the labor force. … participation for women in Japan, motivated by the recent decrease in the number of marriages and the total fertility rate. Using … lower for less-educated women. As regards family formation, utility gains and losses from the first child are insignificant …

We study the effect of fertility on labor supply in Argentina and Mexico exploiting a source of exogenous variability … in family size first introduced by Angrist and Evans (1998) for the United States. Our results constitute the first … both qualitatively and quantitatively to the populations of two developing countries where, compared to the US, fertility …