In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits …

relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior. … and its heterogeneous effects on the labor market opportunities of men and women affected demographic behavior. We focus …. While there was no change in the overall fertility rate, marital fertility declined, and there was an increase in nonmarital …

during this period increased the share of single low-educated people and decreased their marriage rates. There is little … evidence that import com-petition affected fertility decisions. The results highlight the role of gains from joint consumption … in marriage formation. …

fertility setting. In the model of a small open economy, higher fertility is associated with a reduction of lifetime labor … supply. The optimum share of fertility-related pensions is always below unity, but generally positive. The former is true … demonstrated that child allowances are equivalent to fertility-related pensions as instruments to achieve an efficient allocation. …

This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with … positive assortative matching, where in equilibrium the poorest women stay single. Couples have to decide on the number of … data from Germany, we also present empirical evidence which is consistent with this finding. -- marriage ; divorce ; single …

-specific commodities, etc.) are examined within the context of a household economics model with fertility choice. The simultaneous … consideration of child benefits and commodity taxes in the presence of endogenous fertility yields some remarkable results. One is …

the separate effects of equal opportunities for women in the labor market and improved contraception on female education …

This paper studies the effect of cultural attitudes on childcare provision, fertility, female labour supply and the … gender wage gap. Cross-country data show that fertility, female labour force participation and childcare are positively … a model with endogenous fertility, female labour supply and childcare choices which fits these facts. There may exist …