agree on wanting a child. Using newly available data on fertility preferences and outcomes, we show that indeed, babies are … bargaining model of fertility choice and match the model to data from a set of European countries with very low fertility rates …. The distribution of the burden of child care between mothers and fathers turns out to be a key determinant of fertility. A …

also an increase in both divorce and cohabitation and a decline - albeit non-significant - in the number of marriages …. 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. …

This paper examines the impact of trends in female labor force participation on crude divorce rate in Macedonia for the … effects and the risk of divorce. In light of the changing demographics of divorce patterns, we investigate the relationship … between economic variables and divorce, controlling for a set of social and life course variables.The analyses was conducted …

This paper is the first to provide evidence about the relationship between bride price payments and fertility decisions … in the African context. Remarkably, the results show that bride price payments reduce fertility pressure, with a woman … address the potential endogeneity between bride price payments and fertility decisions. As possible transmission channels, we …