This paper applies the theory of relational contracts to a model in which a couple decides whether to marry or cohabit … the legal costs of divorce, on the interrelationships among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce …

The present paper develops a general equilibrium model with overlapping generations and endogenous fertility in order … to analyze the interaction between public policy and household labor supply and fertility decisions. The model … benefit system and analyze the long-run impact on fertility and female labor supply. Our simulations indicate three central …

show that this time consistency problem leads to a systematic downward bias in fertility choices. By keeping fertility low …, families try to mitigate the ex-ante undesired shift in the power balance. This bias in fertility choices provides scope for … overcome the fertility bias …

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in England and …

We question the received wisdom that birth limitation was absent among historical populations before the fertility …-run effect of living standards on birth spacing in the three centuries preceding England’s fertility transition. While the effect …

provided by mothers (or formal institutions) is superior to informal care arrangements …

We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel … teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the German case. We find that teenage fertility is associated with … aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports countercyclical teenage fertility …

identification. On the return to work after the birth, mothers' wages drop by 3 to 5.7 per cent per year of leave. We find negative …