This paper examines the extent to which the Great Recession affected gender composition at birth. We focus on ethnic …

This paper explores gendered patterns of time use as an explanatory factor behind fertility trends in the developed … decades of unprecedented fertility decline in the industrialized world, only a handful of countries in the West exhibit … replacement fertility rates – around two children per woman. Paradoxically, birth rates are substantially lower in countries in …

Can biology help us to better understand gender differences in labor market behavior and outcomes? This chapter reviews …

portion of the gender wage gap is explainable by realized and expected fertility and that the long-run effect of policies …-friendly occupations. We estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of fertility, occupational choice, and labor supply using detailed survey and …-female wage gap as it evolves from labor market entry onward and the effect of pro-fertility policies. We show that a substantial …

I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated … that the benefit did lead to a significant increase in fertility, as intended, part of it coming from an immediate … results suggest that child benefits of this kind may successfully increase fertility, as well as affecting family well …

at birth by parental gender. We show that both paternal and maternal birth weights significantly predict the child …

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

marital status is related to quarter of birth by gender and race, also incorporating cohabitation as a separate relationship …