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 …

impact in the UK than in the US as a result of the fertility and education transmission process. When the relative supply of …This paper presents a model of the intergenerational transmission of education and marital sorting where parents matter …

examines how it affected women's education and labor choices. We present empirical evidence based on GSS data that favors our …

We introduce a general framework to analyze the trade-off between education and family size. Our framework incorporates … significant birth order and family size effects in individuals' years of education thereby confirming the presence of a quantity …

Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women … specialization in work weakened. The primary source of the gains to marriage shifted from the production of household services and … commodities to investment in children. For some, these changes meant that marriage was no longer worth the costs of limited …

Dramatic fertility swings over the last 100 years have been the subject of large literatures in demography and … economics. Recent research has claimed that the post-1960 fertility decline is exceptional enough to constitute a "Second … the fertility decline in the 1960s and 1970s to the earlier 20th century fertility decline, especially the 1920s and 1930s …

-income countries. In doing so, it focuses on fertility outcomes (the number and timing of births), women's health and socio … programs may only explain a small share of fertility decline in real-world settings. Family planning programs may also have …

introduction of primary education for black children in the South during Reconstruction not only increased literacy of children but … other has implications for the externalities associated with education policies. …