household savings, which are primarily financed through increased paternal labor supply. This is the first paper that highlights … this alternative motive for savings in dowry-paying societies. However, we find no impacts of dowry expectations on son …-preferring fertility behaviors and investments in girls. …

We document the effect of unemployment insurance generosity on divorce and fertility using an identification strategy … women's layoffs; reductions in fertility associated with men's layoffs; and increases in fertility associated with women …

fertility of third and subsequent births. As of April 2017, all third and subsequent born children to low-income families in the …-order fertility among lowincome families. However, compared to earlier research in the UK and elsewhere, largely based on benefit … low income families. Our results imply that the main impact of cuts to child benefits is not to reduce fertility but to …

fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a decline …

approximated by older families' income - on two measures of fertility: the proportion of women with an own child under one year of … increases in fertility among women with higher levels of education over the last decade has been a function of this emerging … positive effect of the female wage, among older more educated women. -- fertility, relative income ; relative cohort size …

participation remain largely country-specific. Nonetheless, rising education levels and declining fertility consistently increased …

savings received by families with end of year babies are substantial and are consistent with the end-of-year birth …

This paper tests for the long-term and short-term relationships between fertility and relative cohort size for the … in studies of human fertility both in the short run and in the long-run for the United States. In addition, our results …

work effort, fertility, and the demographic transition. And it affects total factor productivity by constraining or …

a buffer-stock savings model and show that rising income uncertainty and pension reforms lead younger and older … household savings rate and the U-shaped age-profile of savings. -- China ; household savings ; income uncertainty ; pension … reforms ; buffer-stock savings …