agree on wanting a child. Using newly available data on fertility preferences and outcomes, we show that indeed, babies are … bargaining model of fertility choice and match the model to data from a set of European countries with very low fertility rates …. The distribution of the burden of child care between mothers and fathers turns out to be a key determinant of fertility. A …

of household specialization, shocks to male relative stature reduce marriage and fertility. Consistent with sociological … manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage …, fertility and children's living circumstances during 1990-2014. On average, trade shocks differentially reduce employment and …

dimensions, exploring in detail the role of fertility, and possibly divorce in the integration process. We exploit rich …, identifying marital selection and fertility choices as fundamental socialization mechanisms. The estimated cultural intolerance of …, as well as fertility and homogamy rates, slow-down the cultural integration of some immigrant ethnic minorities …

longitudinal data, can potentially help address endogeneity issues arising in the estimation of the causal effect of family on …

East and North Africa, and the rate is higher than 50 percent in some parts of the world. Consanguineous marriage generates … on human capital. The prevalence of consanguineous marriage can shape various dimensions of the society ranging from … consanguineous marriage as an acceptable practice, and that the reform reduced women's propensity to marry a first cousin or a blood …

increasingly important, emerging as a widely used step on the path to marriage. Out-of-wedlock fertility has also risen, consistent …We document key facts about marriage and divorce, comparing trends through the past 150 years and outcomes across … quarter century. Marriage rates have also been falling, but more strikingly, the importance of marriage at different points in …

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 …

with stable earnings and marriage rates among women. Wilson (1987) reasons that because single motherhood is an alternative … to traditional marriage, circumstances that impede marriage should also encourage single motherhood. However, few studies … marriage market prospects and the prevalence of never-married mothers. Much of the existing literature frames the expansion of …

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 …

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 "direct" effects of marriage and motherhood on … wages (i.e., effects net of experience and tenure); first-difference estimates reveal no direct effect of marriage or …