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 …

reduce such a hazard by 4%. Changes in the age of marriage due to droughts are associated with changes in fertility …This paper studies how aggregate economic conditions affect marriage markets in developing countries where marriage is … regulated by traditional customary norms. We examine how local economic shocks influence the timing of marriage, and …

age at first marriage among all U.S. college graduate women soared just after 1972. We explore the relationship between … sex. The pill also created a social multiplier effect by encouraging the delay of marriage generally and thus increasing a … of the striking coincidences in the timing of changes in career investment, marriage age, state laws, and pill use among …

The 1960s ushered in a new era in U.S. demographic history characterized by significantly lower fertility rates and … pill in this transition. Almost fifty years after the contraceptive pill appeared on the U.S. market, this analysis … provides new evidence that it accelerated the post-1960 decline in marital fertility …

behavior and contraceptive use. Evidence from this analysis suggests that the reduction in fertility associated with raising …

countries reduce fertility or improve socio-economic outcomes. Despite suggestive associations, disagreement persists because … paper provides new evidence on the role of contraceptive supply by exploiting the surprisingly haphazard expansion of one of … independently later in life. Although family planning explains only about 10% of Colombia%u2019s fertility decline, it appears to …

Over the past century fertility behavior in the United Stated has undergone profound changes Measured by cohort … fertility the average number of children per married woman had declined from about 5.5 children at the time of the Civil War to … took place in the dispersion of fertility among these women: the percentage of women with, say, seven or more children …