children increases. In these advanced economies the negative impact on fertility deriving from the fact that fewer pregnancies … are needed to get a boy is more than compensated by the positive effect on fertility deriving from the greater stability …

-invariant unobservables that affect both family and work outcomes. Child gender also matters - a first son increases fathers' work hours by … supply model reveals that men who remain with female children are strongly positively selected (in terms of their work hours …) relative to men who remain with male children …

This article analyzes the extent to which changes in household composition over the life course affect the gender … most recent data available from the Time Use National Surveys. We focus on gender differences in the allocation of time …), we show large discrepancies in the gender division of labor at the different life stages. This gender gap exists in all …

Twin births are often used to instrument fertility to address (negative) selection of women into fertility. However …, twin-IV estimates will tend to be upward biased. This is pertinent given the emerging consensus that fertility has limited … impacts on women's labour supply, or on investments in children. Using data for developing countries and the United States, we …

Although the theoretical trade-off between the quantity and quality of children is well-established, empirical evidence …

This paper reviews Gary Becker's contributions to the economic analysis of fertility, from his 1960 paper introducing … the quantity-quality tradeoff to later work linking the economics of fertility to the theory of economic growth …

While a large body of literature focuses on how fertility affects female labour market participation, there are … relatively few studies that examine the effect of fertility on male labour market participation. Even if the burden of child care … falls mainly on women, an exogenous increase in fertility is likely to change the optimal allocation of time, therefore, the …

evidence that import competition affected fertility decisions. The results highlight the role of gains from joint consumption …

whatsoever. In our model economy people marry because they value companionship, bearing children, and sharing their income with … free parameters: the search friction and the utility share of bearing children. We choose their values to match the median … theory predicts that most of the gender age difference at first marriage will persist even if the gender wage-gap disappears …