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 …

children of married parents. We propose that the gains to marriage from a child's perspective depend on a mother's own level of … school completion or avoiding poverty at age 25, the "marriage premium for children" is highest for children of mothers with … at age 25, the marriage premium is monotonically increasing with observed maternal age and education …

higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare … opportunities outside the home. Frontier women were less likely to report "gainful employment," but among those who did, relatively … more had high-status occupations. Together, these findings integrate contrasting narratives about frontier women …

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 …

consanguineous marriage as an acceptable practice, and that the reform reduced women's propensity to marry a first cousin or a blood … 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 …

with stable earnings and marriage rates among women. Wilson (1987) reasons that because single motherhood is an alternative … women responded to poor marriage markets by choosing to raise children on their own, but this choice may not have been … that, during economic downturns, the women who face the worst marriage prospects are themselves economically disadvantaged …

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 …

in married women's employment rates in the 1980s and early 1990s, suggesting an important role for factors not considered …

incidence of marriage of young women (age 16-24). We employ a two-stage methodology. First, across individuals, marriage is …Using the 1970, 1980 and 1990 Censuses, we investigate the impact of labor and marriage market conditions on the … effects are regressed on MSA-level labor and marriage market conditions and welfare benefits using cross-section and fixed …