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 … transition of the late nineteenth-century. Using duration and panel models on family-level data, we find a causal, negative short …-run effect of living standards on birth spacing in the three centuries preceding England’s fertility transition. While the effect …

In a family context with endogenous timing, multiple public goods and alternative parental instruments, we show that …

specifications, including family fixed effects …

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

The present paper quantifies the importance of family insurance for the analysis of social security. We therefore … be almost exclusively attributed to the insurance role of the family with respect to longevity risk. Since a married …

It is notoriously difficult to identify peer effects within the family, because of the common shocks and reflection …, disabled or not. We observe consistent evidence in both locations that the second child in a family is differentially affected …