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 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 …

Women who have first births relatively late in life earn higher wages. This paper offers an explanation of this fact …

Women who have first births relatively late in life earn higher wages. This paper offers an explanation of this fact …

, male health improvements delay the transition and the take-off because ceteris paribus they raise fertility. According to …

growth. By contrast, male health improvements delay the transition and take-off because ceteris paribus they raise fertility …