fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a … significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of positive assortative mating; (v) more children …

The current study finds that societies which historically engaged in plough agriculture today have lower fertility. We … fertility …

Only a few rich nations are currently at replacement levels of fertility and many are considerably below. We believe … that changes in the status of women are driving fertility change. At low levels of female status, women specialize in … household production and fertility is high. In an intermediate phase, women have increasing opportunities to earn a living …

We estimate the effect of fertility on female labor force participation in a cross-country panel data set using … abortion legislation as an instrument for fertility. We find a large negative effect of the fertility rate on female labor … persistent over time giving an effect among older women. We present a simulation model of the effect of fertility reduction on …

between husband and wife. We show that female education is a stronger determinant of age at marriage and early fertility than … to estimate the effect of education on fertility and child mortality. Time and region varying exposure to the school …

We explore several problems in drawing causal inferences from cross-sectional relationships between marriage …, motherhood, and wages. We find that heterogeneity leads to biased estimates of the quot;directquot; effects of marriage and … motherhood on wages (i.e., effects net of experience and tenure); first-difference estimates reveal no direct effect of marriage …

marriage when the sex of the child is known before birth, and fertility stopping rules. We document that parents with girls are …This paper shows how parental preferences for sons versus daughters affect divorce, child custody, marriage, shotgun … likely to be married at delivery. When we turn to fertility, we find that in families with at least two children, the …

does not impact full-time employment after age 50 but is positively associated with investment in education post marriage … employment and retirement outcomes for older women. The spread of unilateral divorce, we find, was associated with cross … divorce significantly increases the probability of full-time employment later in life, and significantly decreases retirement …

their marriage and are more likely to divorce. Finally, based on time use surveys, the gender gap in non-market work is …We examine causes and consequences of relative income within households. We establish that gender identity - in … particular, an aversion to the wife earning more than the husband - impacts marriage formation, the wife's labor force …