of married women lead to increases in their labor supply and reductions in fertility. In Italy, as well as in other … married women. We analyze a model of labor supply and fertility, using panel data from the Bank of Italy which have been … Southern European countries, low labor market participation rates of married women are observed together with low birth rates …

sample of British women born in 1970, we estimate an independent competing risks hazard model of fertility and cohabitation …This paper investigates the effect of earnings and employment opportunities on pre-marital fertility. Using data from a … decisions. Our results show that individual earnings opportunities are negatively related to pre-marital fertility but do not …

decision to marry, and on the choice of game conditional on marriage. We find that, in the absence of social stigma or legal …We use elementary game-theoretical concepts to compare domestic equilibria with and without marriage. In particular, we … examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the …

ages of first-time brides and grooms. We show that modeling the marriage decision in this simple way is sufficient to … previous literature on this topic claims that marriage is a waiting game in which women are choosier than men, and old and rich … show that their shorter biological clocks make women uniformly less choosy than men of the same age. This turns marriage …

find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation … initiated by women, and importantly, by women who are unhappier than their husband. Hence, happiness gaps seem to matter to …

This paper examines the effect of public assistance, labor market and marriage market conditions on the prevalence of … woman's marriage market appear to lead to fewer never married mothers, but more divorced mothers. Higher child support or …

We evaluate price subsidies and tax credits for child care. We focus on partnered women's labor supply, household … wealthier and more educated women. Price subsidies, while less efficient, have positive re-distributional effects. …

importation: the rapid growth of women's educational attainment and a cultural norm that leads to a low net surplus of marriage …Every year, a large number of women immigrate as brides from developing countries to developed countries in East Asia … for educated women. We provide empirical evidence supporting our theoretical model and its implications, using datasets …

estimate a model that examines the effects of the price of child care and the wage rate on employment decision as well as the … decision to use paid child care among single mothers. The model distinguishes between the full-time and part-time employment …