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 …

-side explanations for this decline--that rising land prices and literacy caused a decrease in demand for children--historians and others … measure the effect of changes in the supply of fertility technologies on the number of children born. I estimate an increase …

children in the disaster are significantly more likely to bear additional children after the tsunami. This response explains … about 13 percent of the aggregate increase in fertility. Second, women without children before the tsunami initiated family …