Individuals typically traverse several life phases before forming a family. We analyse whether changing the duration of … affect family formation through human capital accumulation, but also through changing the duration of earlier life phases …

first child raised fertility and increased the probability that the family was living without a father. We find that for our …

" (time and material support),family background, and literacy and numeracy test scores. I find that although preexisting …

influencing youth smoking outside from the family context. Thus policies targeted at reducing juvenile smoking may fail, if …

This paper investigates the impact of unemployment on the propensity to start a family. Unemployment is accompanied by … bad occupational prospects and impending economic deprivation, placing the well-being of a future family at risk. I … analyze unemployment at the intersection of state-dependence and the reduced opportunity costs of parenthood, distinguishing …

consequences of family support policy and stress the need for well-defined policy goals and careful analysis ahead of any reform. …

, focusing on the type of family model where children grow up, defined on the basis of parental employment status and relative … earnings. The traditional "male-breadwinner" model is no longer the only type of family that has been observed throughout … recent decades; the "dual-breadwinner" family model is currently widespread across all developed countries and an additional …