of development (i.e., capital accumulation and declining fertility) exacerbated the tension in men’s conflicting … their daughters. The model predicts that declining fertility would hasten reform of women’s property rights whereas legal …

of development (i.e., capital accumulation and declining fertility) exacerbated the tension in men's conflicting … their daughters. The model predicts that declining fertility would hasten reform of women's property rights whereas legal …

initial conditions. The degree of marital sorting, wage inequality, per capita income and fertility differentials are …

This paper attempts to disentangle the direct effects of experience from those of culture in determining fertility. We … use the GSS to examine the fertility of women born in the US but from different ethnic backgrounds. We take lagged values … of the total fertility rate in woman’s country of ancestry as the cultural proxy and use the woman’s number of siblings …

fertility behaviour of women 30-40 years old, born in the US, but whose parents were born elsewhere. We use past female labour … force participation and total fertility rates from the country of ancestry as our cultural proxies. These variables should … explanatory power for individual work and fertility outcomes, even after controlling for possible indirect effects of culture (e …

greater inequality. To investigate this we construct a dynamic model of intergenerational education acquisition, fertility … fertility and education, a decreasing marginal effect of parental education on children's years of education, and wages that are …