higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …

fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a … significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of positive assortative mating; (v) more children …

. Married and divorced women with children, over whom husbands and ex-husbands have leverage, actually exit the labor force and …

-age children, and coincides with increased time spent engaging in childcare. Decomposing the gender gap in summer work …

We investigate women's fertility, labor and marriage market responses to a health innovation that led to reductions in … intensive and extensive margin fertility, a decline in the chances of ever having married, increased labor force participation … allow women to start fertility later and invest more in the labor market. We present a new theory of fertility that …

their children are under age three. We use regional and over time variation to show that the Finnish Home Care Allowance … also negatively affect the early childhood cognitive test results of children, decrease the likelihood of choosing academic … on mothers and children compared to HCA. Our findings suggest that shifting child care from the home to the market …

) effect of children on wages …

affects fertility in China. China has deep concerns with both population size and female employment, so the relationship … prospects affect fertility. Then a well-validated instrumental variable isolates this effect. Female employment reduces a … married woman's preferred number of children by 0.35 on average and her actual number by 0.50. Ramifications for China's one …