, fertility, divorce, child support transfers, and children's quality are endogenously determined. Divorce enables parents to …Approximately four out of ten American children experience the divorce of their parents. This raises concern because … offspring of married parents. The belief that a two-parent family is the ideal environment for raising children is reflected in …

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 …, time spent nurturing children affects utility, while time spent off the job in the past directly affects current utility …

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 …

marriage and divorce? To answer this question, we build a model of marriage with two main features. First, there exists … asymmetry across men and women with respect to the length of their fertile period: men can have children all through adulthood …, while women can only bear children for a limited period of time. Second, outside opportunities to marry, measured by the …

of these effects with other important determinants (such as fertility patterns, the cost of children, uncertainty, and so … that the low participation rates associated with the 'fertility years' are no longer present. The aim of this paper is to … children impose some monetary fixed cost when mothers decide to work. Decisions are taken at an annual frequency. The model …

We examine the effects of changes of government provided old age pensions on fertility choices in the context of two … models of fertility, the one by Barro and Becker (1989), and the one inpired by Caldwell and developed by Boldrin and Jones … (2002). In the Barro and Becker model parents have children because they perceive their children's lives as a continuation …

This paper incorporates fertility and altruism into the ``value of life'' framework. Two dimensions of fertility and … determining welfare in a context where individuals choose the number of children they have. Second, if altruism motivates … fertility, life expectancy gains have a twofold effect: they directly increase utility via increased survival probabilities, and …

consumption good and while old also from sporting services and transfers made to their children. The consumption good is produced … high or low depending on whether the accountants can afford to send their children to school or not. For instance, a high …