To assess whether earnings-dependent maternity leave positively impacts fertility and narrows the baby gap between high … fertility up to 5 years post reform. In addition to demonstrating an up to 22% increase in the fertility of tertiary educated … versus low educated women, I find a positive, statistically significant effect of increased benefits on fertility, driven …

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

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 … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college …

unmarried women, thereby delaying female marriage, lowering fertility, and unleashing economic growth. We show that this … Black Death did not have to remain unmarried, so improved pastoral opportunities did not necessitate later marriage. There … is no consensus that late female marriage emerged after the Black Death. Furthermore, the relationship between …

frictions and the fact that physical appearance plays an important role in attracting a marriage partner. We analyse the … interaction between frictional labour and marriage markets, making use of what we label constrained job search. The optimal … characterised by beauty premium and/or marriage premium. Predicted profiles of premia allow for potential falsification tests and …