We present a dynamic life-cycle model of women's labor supply, marriage, and fertility choices that explicitly … forms of health on other life dynamics, with better mental health having stronger impacts on marriage and fertility outcomes … employment have long-lasting eects on life decisions, life satisfaction, and income due to their interaction with fertility …

Though the negative correlation between fertility and development has been long acknowledged, it is challenging to … estimate the causal effect of female labor force participation (FLFP) on fertility. We use a novel instrument for estimating … fertility. We find large effects on fertility and mothers’ age: increases in FLFP can explain at least 42% of the reduction in …

higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …

work for leisure and personal time. We find no effects for men. The fact that the reforms reduced fertility only among …

of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different … data suggest that the introduction of joint custody led to a long-run increase in marriage rates. There is no convincing … dampened the persistent downturn in marriage. Our empirical evidence is fully consistent with the supposition that these …

marriage rates, fertility and educational attainment of women who were affected by the change in law. After the passage of the … law, marriage rates declined sharply, and as a result, fertility declined and educational attainment increased. The … marriage can have significant implications for reducing fertility and increasing educational attainment of women …