institutional structure to attitudes such as trust, individualism, and nepotism. Using data from Turkey and leveraging an education … reform which increased mandatory schooling by three years, we find that the reform made women less likely to find … consanguineous marriage as an acceptable practice, and that the reform reduced women's propensity to marry a first cousin or a blood …

I explore the effects of education on nonmarket outcomes from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Examples of … over time, own (adult) health and inputs into the production of own health, fertility, and child quality or well …-being reflected by their health and cognitive development. I pay a good deal of attention to the effects of education on health …

How do children affect women in science? We investigate this question using rich biographical data, linked with patents … 48% of fathers and 46% of women without children. Mothers face comparable tenure rates to other assistant professors for … who survive in science are extremely positively selected: Compared with other married women, mothers patent (publish) 2 …

between women's labor force participation and fertility. The economics of fertility has entered a new era because these … some cases reversed, and the cross-country relationship between women's labor force participation and fertility is now …In this survey, we argue that the economic analysis of fertility has entered a new era. First-generation models of …

This paper examines the effect of a nationwide healthcare reform implemented in Turkey on women's fertility decisions …'s position is to encourage fertility behavior and discourage birth control practices among women at prime childbearing ages … clinics, called Family Health Centers, on a walk-in basis. Although reducing fertility was not specified among the goals of …

The vast majority of China's fertility decline predates the famous One Child Policy - and instead occurred under its … predecessor, the Later, Longer, Fewer (LLF) fertility control policy. In this paper, we first study LLF's contribution to marriage … and fertility behavior, finding that the policy reduced China's total fertility rate by about 0.9 births per woman …

their daughters. The model predicts that declining fertility would hasten reform of women's property rights whereas legal …Why has the expansion of women's economic and political rights coincided with economic development? This paper … investigates this question, focusing on a key economic right for women: property rights. The basic hypothesis is that the process …

declines in employment. This paper provides a comprehensive study of recent trends in the fertility of college-graduate women …Observers have argued about whether highly-educated women are opting out of their careers and for families. If so, it … is natural to expect fertility to increase and, insofar as children are associated with lower employment, further …

Using 1995-2011 Current Population Survey and 1970-2000 Census data, we find that the fertility, education and labor … by the immigrant generation's levels of these variables, with the effect of the fertility and labor supply of women from … education of men from the father's source country larger than that of women from the mother's source country. We present some …