. While there was no change in the overall fertility rate, marital fertility declined, and there was an increase in nonmarital … relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior. …

cohabitation. While there was no change in overall fertility rate, marital fertility declined, and there was an increase in out …

Despite the remarkable increase in women's education levels and the rapid fall of their fertility rate in Iran, female … impact on most mothers' participation. This result explains why the rapid decline in fertility rates did not increase female …

Twin births are often used to instrument for fertility when investigating the impact of family size on labor market … outcomes. In this paper we consider two econometric problems both related to the link between fertility treatments and multiple … births. The first is the potential for omitted variable bias caused by the fact that fertility treatments are typically …

there was no change in the overall fertility rate, marital fertility declined, and there was an increase in nonmarital … relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior …

in fertility levels. Changes in union formation and fertility levels, on the other hand, do have a significant impact on …