This paper shows that globalization has far-reaching implications for the economy’s fertility rate and family structure … competition lead to a shift towards family, with more parental leave and higher fertility as well as more marriages and fewer …–if the worker is a woman. The female biological clock–low fertility beyond the early forties–is central to this gender …

We present a dynamic lifecycle model of women’s choices with respect to partnership status, labour supply and fertility … uncertainty about a partner’s abusive type creates incentives for women to delay fertility, reduce fertility overall, divorce more … and subsidized childcare fail to do so because they encourage early fertility. Income support also leads to less …

, fertility and children’s living circumstances during 1990-2014. On average, trade shocks differentially reduce employment and … reduce marriage and fertility. Consistent with prominent sociological accounts, these shocks heighten male idleness and …

Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two … fertility and female labour market participation, negative until the mid-1970s, has turned positive where developed, but not …

This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and …

first child raised fertility and increased the probability that the family was living without a father. We find that for our … associated with lower fertility, particularly for natives. Thus, by the 2008-2013 period, any apparent son preference in … fertility decisions appears to have been outweighed by factors such as cost concerns in raising girls or increased female …

there was no change in the overall fertility rate, marital fertility declined, and there was an increase in nonmarital … relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior. …

more home production. As a result, the cost of raising children increases and fertility declines. Assuming a loss of … utility from children in the case of divorce, lower fertility increases the probability of divorce. Using Spanish data and RDD …

evidence that import com-petition affected fertility decisions. The results highlight the role of gains from joint consumption …

. Accounting for the counterfactual mode of care is crucial in the analysis of child outcomes and potential mediators. We evaluate …’s counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children’s health and human …