women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed …This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and …

women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed …This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and …

the legal costs of divorce, on the interrelationships among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce …

The interaction between investment in children’s education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the … significant negative causal effect of education on fertility, which is robust to accounting for spatial autocorrelation. The … causal effect of education is identified through exogenous variation in enrollment rates due to differences in landownership …

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in England and … Continental Europe, implemented between 1936 and 1975. We assess the causal effect of education on the number of biological … children and the incidence of childlessness. We find surprising results for Continental Europe: the additional education …

of marriage. We finally discuss the impact of late marriages on fertility, and argue that there need not be negative …We present a model of courtship in which the timing of marriage is affected by the cognitive dissonance between … perceived norms and personal aims. We argue that as long as the family has been the main provider of social protection, marriage …

This paper scrutinizes the recently postulated link between the European Marriage Pattern (EMP) and economic success. A …

This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with …

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 …