This paper examines the effect of economic incentives generated by U.S. divorce and custody law on a range of child … support as those without custody. Merging family and child data from the SIPP with state-level data on economic incentives for … joint custody, we find that fathers' joint custody decisions are significantly affected by the incentives generated by …

propose an econometric model that accounts for the endogeneity of labor market and fertility decisions, for the heterogeneity … of the effects of children and their correlation with the fertility decisions, and for the correlation of sequential … ; education ; endogenous fertility decisions ; heterogeneous children effects ; multinomial probit model ; Gibbs sampler …

women in a framework that accounts for the endogeneity of labor market and fertility decisions, the heterogeneity of the … effects of children and their correlation with the fertility decisions, and the correlation of sequential labor market … part time jobs. Individual heterogeneity plays an important role in the relationship between labor market and fertility …

generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply but, for the second generation, also examines fertility and education. We … of immigrants to native levels of schooling, fertility, and labor supply across generations. …

Scholars have been examining the relationship between fertility and unemployment for more than a century. Most studies … find that fertility falls with unemployment in the short run, but it is not known whether these negative effects persist … period 1975 to 2010, we analyze both the short and long-run effects of unemployment on fertility. We follow fixed cohorts of …

not a strictly binding constraint. To investigate whether such adjustments could apply to fertility, we estimate the … fertility cost of temperature shocks by shifting conception month. This dynamic adjustment helps explain the observed decline in … temperatures due to climate change may reduce population growth rates in the coming century. As an added cost, climate change will …

19th century in the United States. We construct new measures of fertility changes and measures of railroad access at the … county level from 1850 - 1890. We are able to document market-access-induced changes in fertility due to both extensive … margins (shifts in occupations with different average fertility rates) and intensive margins (changes in fertility within each …

undocumented immigrants' fertility. We find that a one standard deviation increases in enforcement lowers childbearing among likely …

examined using the Current Population Surveys) having a girl has a more positive effect on fertility for those whose source … headship and raised fertility. In light of the substantial increase in immigration, we examine this question separately for … immigrants and natives. Among the population in the aggregate, as well as among the native-born separately, consistent with Dahl …