women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap …. College educated women marry later, have fewer children, are less likely to view marriage as “financial security”, are happier …

commodities to investment in children. For some, these changes meant that marriage was no longer worth the costs of limited … different functions among different groups. The poor and less educated are much more likely to rear children in cohabitating … relationships. The college educated typically cohabit before marriage, but they marry before conceiving children and their marriages …

averaged the same number of children born over their lifetimes. In contrast to conventional wisdom, the mean age of household …. These three features of the 20th century fertility decline have implications for children's opportunities, children …

children, may also alter the incentives faced by men to have children out of wedlock. We find that strengthening child support … and those with a higher propensity to invest in children. Thus, policies that compel men to pay child support may affect …

children at birth. This work sheds new light on the health production process as well as observed income gradients in health … and children via reductions in violence. …

sex ratio (males to females) in two generations -- those prenatally exposed and their children -- presumably through …

the effect of women's education on a range of outcomes relating to women's fertility, their children's health and measures … children per women by 0.11. There is also some evidence of a decline in child mortality, caused by mother's education, but …