trend. -- marriage ; relative income ; relative cohort size ; Easterlin hypothesis ; marriage squeeze …

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 …

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 …

and fertility. Our data consists of individuals born in the 1950s and educated in a UK district that assigned students to … attendance generated positive effects on labor market outcomes and significant decreases in fertility; for men, we find no elite …

on partners' earnings. Fertility of women is not affected and evidence for men is mixed, but we find evidence for …

spatial patterns and of the impacts of fertility on longevity. Our results suggest very limited evidence of spatial (state …) variation in these patterns. We do, however, find evidence that the associations between fertility and longevity partially …

How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by …, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower rates of marriage and fertility, higher nonmarital births and reduced … bargaining power within marriage for women most affected by war deaths. The impact of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family …

- both own education and that of parents - in delaying marriage and fertility of young women. …Low female schooling attainment, early marriage and low age at first birth are major policy concerns in developing … countries. This paper jointly estimated the determinants of educational attainment, marriage age and age of first birth among …

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 …