relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior … and its heterogeneous effects on the labor market opportunities of men and women affected demographic behavior. We focus … there was no change in the overall fertility rate, marital fertility declined, and there was an increase in nonmarital …

that working women with children aged 0-5 are those who say they find balancing work and family more difficult during COVID …Using new survey data collected in April 2020 from a representative sample of Italian women, we analyse jointly the … to our empirical estimates, changes to the amount of housework done by women during the emergency do not seem to depend …

exploit the setting of the German reunification. A state socialist country, East Germany strongly encouraged mothers to …, we document a strong asymmetry in the persistence of the culture in which women were raised. Whereas East German female … show that even a partial exposure to East German colleagues induces “native” West German mothers to accelerate their return …

applications, resulting in a large increase in enrollment among lower-SES families. The treatment increases lower-SES mothers’ full …-time employment rates by 9 percentage points (+160%), household income by 10%, and mothers’ earnings by 22%. The effect on full …

due to Chinese import competition lead to a move towards family, with higher rates of fertility, parental leave, and … marriage, as well as lower rates of divorce. This move is driven by women, not men. We document substantial long-run earnings … labor market when young, and a negative trade shock induces women to substitute more to family activities than men. High …

We study the role of fertility adjustments for the labor market responsiveness of men and women. First, we use … to tax changes of men and women. Second, we quantify the importance of these fertility adjustments for understanding the … labor supply responsiveness of couples through a life-cycle model of family labor supply and fertility. Allowing fertility …

Fertility has a strong biological component generally ignored by economists. Using the UK Biobank, we analyze the … diffusion, affect age at first sexual intercourse, age at first birth, completed family size, and childlessness. Both genes and … environment exert substantial influences on all outcomes. The anticipation of sexual debut and the postponement of motherhood led …

This paper considers the potential impact of welfare benefits on the partnership status of women in the UK. Using …

in married women’s employment rates in the 1980s and early 1990s, suggesting an important role for factors not considered …

for heterogeneous effects by degree of prematurity, as well as whether family socioeconomic resources and school …