human capital accumulation, non-separable preferences of females and child care costs on females life-cycle fertility and …, labor force participation and fertility decisions is estimated. In that model, experience on the job raises future wages … policy simulations which shows that human capital accumulation is the most important determinant of life-cycle fertility …

A large number of pairs of countries exhibit a dynamic pattern in which: (i) Fertility in both countries declines … across time; (ii) Initially one country has higher fertility and lower per-capita income compared to the other; (iii) In time …, as per-capita income converges, fertility rates in the poorer country become lower than in the richer one. This paper …

, (ii) an increase in the rate of divorce, and (iii) a decline in the rate of marriage. What can explain this? It is argued … marriage and divorce is developed. Household production is subject to labor-saving technological progress …

offspring of married parents. The belief that a two-parent family is the ideal environment for raising children is reflected in … recent pro-marriage public policies. One difficulty with these policies is that there is substantial evidence that … family policies, such as monetary incentives to stay married, better enforcement of child support guidelines, and …

before marriage, but a result of interaction within the household. If so, the positive correlation between the working … husband brings to the marriage if his mother worked that also make it more attractive for his wife to work. This paper …

positive trend in relative housework. We develop a simple bargaining model of marriage, divorce and allocations of leisure …

The paper investigates how marriage rates and the gains to marriage are affected by city size in three societies … seventies. Population supplies in each US city were instrumented with their own population supplies twenty years earlier. The … marriage rates in all three societies. There are small decreasing returns to scale effects in China and the US. The paper …