Social Security benefits depend on the employment and earnings history of the covered worker, but, especially for women, they depend on one's marital history and the employment and earnings history of one's spouse. This paper examines the interrelationship between marriage, divorce, employment...

This chapter describes the intellectual development and the empirical implications of the literature on the economics of fertility as it applies to fertility behavior in developed economies. The chapter reviews the literature on dynamic models of fertility behavior over the parents' life cycle,...