, there are strong links between female employment, having children and union formation. By undertaking a detailed micro … in fertility levels. Changes in union formation and fertility levels, on the other hand, do have a significant impact on …

The main purpose of this paper is to show how the labour market affects Spanish individual fertility decisions. Spain … is an interesting case due to its huge fertility decline. Our hypothesis is that precarious Spanish labour markets (i … hours) postpone first and second birth in any cohort, even accounting for any potential endogeneity between fertility and …

If participation in the labor market helps to secure women’s outside options in the case of divorce/separation, an … prediction has been tested in the literature using time and/or spatial variation in divorce legislation (e.g., across US states ….e., the legalization of divorce. In Ireland, the right to divorce was introduced in 1996, followed by an acceleration of …

marriage, divorce, widowhood, birth of child, and layoff. However, there is little evidence of adaptation to unemployment. Men …

This paper examines the extent to which mothers that care for children where the father is non-resident have an award … or agreement for child support in place. Data from the Families and Children Study are used to explore not only whether … disadvantaged. Moreover, awards were less commonplace where there were fewer children, where mothers claimed Income Support, were …

work has exploited this exogenous variation to measure the effect of divorce on economic outcomes, and has concluded that … divorce has little effect on women’s mean household income. However, using a Quantile Treatment Effect methodology (Abadie et … al. 2002) we find that divorce widens the income distribution: it increases the probability that a woman has very low or …

. Adaptation to marriage, divorce, birth of child and widowhood appears to be rapid and complete; this is not so for unemployment …

captured by attitudes toward marriage, divorce, fertility, and children. Singles search for mates in a marriage market. They … the quantity and quality of children. They can divorce. Social policies, such as child tax credits or child support … organization of the latter, and, also, in part, on An overlapping generations model of marriage, fertility and nature of the is …