Data on 2,355 married women from the 2006 China Health and Nutrition Survey are used to study how female employment … affects fertility in China. China has deep concerns with both population size and female employment, so the relationship … between the two should be better understood. Causality flows in both directions. A conceptual model shows how employment …

family formation when mothers reduce their hours of work. But what happens when the kids grow up? To answer that question, we …

We use the 1988 PSID to study the effects of income and wealth on transfers of money and time between individuals and … in the cross section or in the analysis using siblings that parental income or wealth raises time transfers from children …

Wealth is highly correlated between parents and their children; however, little is known about the extent to which … these relationships are genetic or determined by environmental factors. We use administrative data on the net wealth of a … relationship between the wealth of adopted and biological parents and that of the adopted child, we find that, even prior to any …

We estimate the effects of large, positive wealth shocks on marriage and fertility in a sample of Swedish lottery … players. For male winners, wealth increases marriage formation and reduces divorce risk, suggesting wealth increases men …'s attractiveness as prospective and current partners. Wealth also increases male fertility. The only discernible effect on female …

The composition, wealth and employment of male veterans and nonveterans are analyzed for four cohorts from the Health … 1992 HRS cohort the wealth of veterans is no longer higher than the wealth of nonveterans. In contrast, the wealth of … veterans from the youngest cohort, those 51 to 56 in 2010, remains about 10 to 13 percent below the wealth of nonveterans from …

This study investigates the relationship between parental employment and child cognitive development using data from … employment may be particularly costly for children in traditional' two-parent families. Finally, the data suggest that paternal … and maternal employment have qualitatively similar effects, hinting at the importance of time investments by fathers. The …

for an absent wage variable, but instead has an impact of its own. Specific findings on the influence of various family …

mothers, and by reductions in completed family size. Finally, while the pill affected maternal characteristics differently …

efforts of parents with young children to balance work and family life. Next I consider whether employer policies mitigate or …