Survey of Youth 1979 are used and three different methods for measuring the probability of marriage and divorce are employed …. Consistent with theoretical predictions, married women are found to work more when they face a high probability of divorce. This … relationship holds both over an individual's life-cycle and across people with different inherent risks of divorce. The second …

economic development through its impact on productivity, fertility and human capital investment.In the second chapter of this … counteracting disease).In the third chapter of this dissertation, I model the impact of child disease burden on fertility and human … capital investment. The fertility response to a decline in child mortality depends on the morbidity effect of the disease, the …

Over the demographic transition, declining fertility leads to rising support ratios and consumption during the first … fertility falls to preserve the initial gains? Using a new cross-national data set, we estimate that a constant share of life … number of children. We draw from the literature an estimated elasticity of labor productivity with respect to human capital …

drain induces parents to have more high and less low educated children. Under certain conditions fertility may either rise …How do high and low skilled migration affect fertility and human capital in migrants' origin countries? This question … is analyzed within an overlapping generations model where parents choose the number of high and low skilled children they …

overlapping generations model which accounts for endogenous fertility and education. Parents choose the number of children they …This paper analyzes the effects of skilled migration and remittances on fertility decisions at origin. We develop an … want to raise and decide upon how many children obtain higher education. Only high skilled individuals migrate with a …