earnings, employment, marriage prospects, potential spousal characteristics, and fertility. We find that students perceive …

earnings, employment, marriage prospects, potential spousal characteristics, and fertility. We find that students perceive …

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 …

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 …

We document the effect of unemployment insurance generosity on divorce and fertility using an identification strategy … women's layoffs; reductions in fertility associated with men's layoffs; and increases in fertility associated with women …

In 1933, the German government introduced the marriage loan for newlyweds, a policy aimed at increasing marriages and …

Survey Marriage and Fertility Supplements. … for other Western countries. Using 1995-2015 Dutch marriage registry data, we show that daughters are associated with …