The twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Gary Becker’s path-breaking Treatise on the Family provides an … occasion to reexamine both the American family and family economics. We begin by discussing how families have changed in recent … decades: the separation of sex, marriage, and childbearing; fewer children and smaller households; converging work and …

In this study we provide a new examination of the incentive effects of welfare rules on family structure. Focusing on … family is treated. In an empirical analysis conducted over the period 1996 to 2004 that correctly matches family structure … outcomes to welfare rules, we find significant effects of several welfare policies on family structure, both work …

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

-preferring fertility behaviors and investments in girls. …

Since the onset of democracy in 1975, both total fertility and Mass attendance rates in Spain have dropped dramatically …. I use the 1985 and 1999 Spanish Fertility Surveys to study whether the significance of religion in fertility behavior … – both in family size and in the spacing of births – has changed. While in the 1985 SFS family size was similar among …

The Nordic countries have remarkably high participation rates of mothers and a moderate decrease of fertility rates … family friendly policies chosen in the Nordic countries are unique. The availability of generous parental leave schemes … evaluate family-friendly policies in the 'Nordic model' with respect to the two modes of child care i.e. either parental care …