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 …

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 studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with … mothers than for single mothers. We show that this increases the number of single mothers and the divorce rate. Using survey …

woman's marriage market appear to lead to fewer never married mothers, but more divorced mothers. Higher child support or …This paper examines the effect of public assistance, labor market and marriage market conditions on the prevalence of … significantly and positively associated with a higher incidence of both never married and divorced mothers. The results also suggest …

woman's marriage market appear to lead to fewer never married mothers, but more divorced mothers. Higher child support or …This paper examines the effect of public assistance, labor market and marriage market conditions on the prevalence of … significantly and positively associated with a higher incidence of both never married and divorced mothers. The results also suggest …

marriage remained stubbornly high into the twentieth century. Explanations of Ireland's late entry to the fertility transition …In most western societies, marital fertility began to decline in the nineteenth century. But in Ireland, fertility in … Irish outside of Ireland behaved the same way. This paper investigates these claims by examining the marital fertility of …

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 …