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 …

This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and … women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college …

compromised a range of socioeconomic outcomes, including: literacy, labor market status, wealth and marriage market outcomes …

The 1960s ushered in a new era in U.S. demographic history characterized by significantly lower fertility rates and … smaller family sizes. What catalyzed these changes remains a matter of considerable debate. This paper exploits idiosyncratic … evidence that it accelerated the post-1960 decline in marital fertility. …

with them from acquiring the language ("leaning" outweighs "learning"). Whether family members learn from or lean on each …

' behavior is largely independent of the presence (or absence) of their fathers. The strong effect of family structure is not … delinquent behavior and adolescent family structure that cannot be explained by fathers' involvement with their adolescent sons … adolescent family structure and delinquent behavior is not accounted for by the income differentials associated with fathers …

Using data from three cycles of the National Survey of Family Growth, we investigate whether there were adverse … number of marriages. We find positive effects of teen motherhood on family income, and, unsurprisingly, on the number of … marriage, while increasing the probability of never having married. In general, for less advantaged teens, motherhood appears …