KIDS COUNT is a national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the U.S. Ten key measures …

This article examines the role of family and the state in relation to theliving standards of the elderly in East Asia … theelderly in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. It argues that public policy inthe region assumes the family as primarily …

from the Family Resources Survey is used to identifythe characteristics of the divorced population. In the second part … twolongitudinal studies, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and theNational Child Development Study (NCDS) are used to address … adulthood. A number of insights emergedfrom our longitudinal analyses as well as from the cross-sectional analysisof the Family …

has examined the tenancy records, evidence from staff interviews and family development, in order to highlight how much …

therise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger forthe decline in fertility and the …

In this paper we analyze the distribution of fertility rates across theworld using parametric mixture models. We … demonstrate the existence of twinpeaks and the division of the world's countries in two distinct components: ahigh-fertility … regime and a low fertility regime. Whereas the signicance oftwin peaks vanishes over time, the two fertility regimes continue …

with micro-founded fertility and schoolingbehavior. We then show how a Beckerian child quality-quantity trade-o explainswhy …

We examine the long-run relationship between fertility, mortality, and incomeusing panel cointegration techniques and … for amajor part of the fertility change characterizing the demographic transition. The fertilityreduction triggered by …

The evidence strongly suggests a robust negative relationship between income and fertility, anda positive relationship … posi-tive longevity-income relationship for rich individuals, but also predict a positive fertility … of intergenerational substitution" (EGS) can simul-taneously account for the evidence of declining demand for children …

There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household …