educational achievements of individuals, as well as many aspects of family background, including birth order, number of sisters …

of development (i.e., capital accumulation and declining fertility) exacerbated the tension in men's conflicting … their daughters. The model predicts that declining fertility would hasten reform of women's property rights whereas legal …

sample of professionals is decomposed into several subsamples: men and women, and within each gender a distinction is made …). Comparisons by gender and ethnicity can then be made. Characteristics (endowments) and wage structures of the four groups are …

National Insurance Institute. The Paper focuses on gender differences in work history patterns and, within each gender …’s labour market attachment is stronger than is generally presumed. Gender differences in employment interruptions are greater …

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 …

capture her direct family experience. We find that both variables are significant determinants of fertility, even after …This paper attempts to disentangle the direct effects of experience from those of culture in determining fertility. We … use the GSS to examine the fertility of women born in the US but from different ethnic backgrounds. We take lagged values …

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

The most commonly used measure of reproductive behavior is the total fertility rate (TFR), which is a measure of the … number of children born per woman. However, almost no work exists measuring the fertility behavior of men. In this paper we … and women were each asked about their reproductive histories. We document a number of interesting differences in fertility …