time-to-first-marriage and time-to-next-birth among women whose first" child was born out of wedlock. We use twin births to … eventual marriage; and (2) lead initially unwed black mothers to hasten their next birth. The magnitudes of these effects are … affects fertility …

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 …

provision on two important demographic outcomes—childbearing and marriage. The impact on childbearing is theoretically ambiguous … childbirth. The impact on marriage is also ambiguous, as marriage rates may decrease when young adults have less need for … they are married. Changes in childbearing and marriage can, in turn, lead to changes in the likelihood of filing a tax …

This paper looks at the fertility and mortality experience of racial and ethnic groups in the United States from the … demographic behavior. There has been both absolute and relative convergence of fertility across groups. It has been of relatively …

There has been a well-documented retreat from marriage among less educated individuals in the U.S. and non …-marital childbearing has become the norm among young mothers and mothers with low levels of education. One hypothesis is that the declining … hypothesis that an increase in potential earnings of less-educated men would correspondingly lead to an increase in marriage and …

We examine the association between nonmarital childbearing and the subsequent likelihood of first marriage and document … expectations of future marriage. Rather, the direction of causation is just the reverse: Nonmarital childbearing tends to be an … first marriage. Further, the upward trend in the proportion of childbearing that occurs outside of marriage may account for …

the equilibrium sorting of spouses by skill type (their correlation in education) is increasing as a function of the skill … initial conditions. The degree of marital sorting, wage inequality, and fertility differentials are positively correlated … construct several measures of the skill premium and of the degree of correlation of spouses' education (marital sorting). For …

associated with reduced welfare receipt, reduced fertility, reduced marriage, and lower school drop-out among young women who …We use data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth 1979 and 1997 cohorts to compare welfare use, fertility … rates, educational attainment, and marriage rates among teenage women in the years before and the years immediately …

women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed …This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and …

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 …