the fertility and marital behavior in Germany, until recently a lowest-low fertility setting. We find that exposure to … greater import competition from Eastern Europe led to worse labor market outcomes and lower fertility rates. In contrast …, workers in industries that benefited from increased exports had better employment prospects and higher fertility. These …

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 …

reduce marriage and fertility. Consistent with prominent sociological accounts, these shocks heighten male idleness and … manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage …, fertility and children’s living circumstances during 1990-2014. On average, trade shocks differentially reduce employment and …

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 …-earning women in their late 30s contribute strongly to the gender difference in fertility because switching to new comparable …