A comprehensive descriptive analysis of gender wage differences over a long time period is missing for West Germany …

This paper investigates the effect of earnings and employment opportunities on pre-marital fertility. Using data from a … sample of British women born in 1970, we estimate an independent competing risks hazard model of fertility and cohabitation … decisions. Our results show that individual earnings opportunities are negatively related to pre-marital fertility but do not …

This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and … women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college …

explain the difference in fertility between these two groups using a switching regression analysis, which enables us to … more children than cohabiting couples primarily because marriage provides stronger incentives for specialization in …

We use elementary game-theoretical concepts to compare domestic equilibria with and without marriage. In particular, we … examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the … decision to marry, and on the choice of game conditional on marriage. We find that, in the absence of social stigma or legal …

looks like Western Europe-below-replacement fertility rates, rising age at first marriage and first birth, and high and … demographic transformation in the past twenty years. On many dimensions of fertility and family formation, much of the region now … increasing out-of-wedlock birthrates, characterize many countries formerly distinguished by replacement-level fertility and early …

had little effect on the probabilities of entering into marriage and parenthood at a young age. In contrast, both the … marriage and motherhood. …

This paper analyzes the causal relationships between marriage and subjective well-being in a longitudinal data set … spanning 17 years. We find evidence that happier singles opt more likely for marriage and that there are large differences in … the benefits from marriage between couples. Potential, as well as actual, division of labor seems to contribute to spouses …