of family limitation strategies in Ireland a century ago. Regression analysis of the data shows evidence of `spacing' in …

The Paper investigates the relationship of work and family life in Britain. Using hazard regression techniques we … in fertility levels. Changes in union formation and fertility levels, on the other hand, do have a significant impact on …

relationship between aggregate fertility and household savings. First, we document that parents perceive children as an important … source of old-age support and that in partial equilibrium, increased fertility lowers household savings. Then, we construct … equilibrium effects can substantially overstate the effect of a change in aggregate fertility on households savings. …

economic growth since the emergence of the human species. This unified theory encompasses the observed evolution of population …

men, and that this trend is positively correlated with the decline in marriage in these countries. This pattern is … mirrored in German longitudinal data (GSOEP), where transitions out of marriage make women, but not men, significantly more … of non-marriage extends to the allocation of State resources. We find that the relationship between the decline in …

. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of … marriage markets will naturally tend to be hypergamous - that is, a marriage is more likely to be beneficial to both parties … goes up. The model sheds light on how marriage affects the returns to human capital for men and women. Absent marriage …