captured by attitudes toward marriage, divorce, fertility, and children. Singles search for mates in a marriage market. Married …

A recent literature do cuments that manufacturing employment growth in developing countries has been sluggish over the … transitory. In this article, I use a new data set on manufacturing employment by occupation to do cument four stylized facts ab … of workers with little formal education in manufacturing relative to other industries has declined. Second, the disapp …

Since the onset of democracy in 1975, both total fertility and Mass attendance rates in Spain have dropped dramatically …. I use the 1985 and 1999 Spanish Fertility Surveys to study whether the significance of religion in fertility behavior … practicing and non-practicing Catholics, practicing Catholics portray significantly higher fertility during recent years. In the …

and dissolution, fertility, female time allocation, education, wages, and wealth. Using a theoretical framework based on …

I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated … that the benefit did lead to a significant increase in fertility, as intended, part of it coming from an immediate … results suggest that child benefits of this kind may successfully increase fertility, as well as affecting family well …

We examine the long-run relationship between fertility, mortality, and income using panel cointegration techniques and … for a major part of the fertility change characterizing the demographic transition. The change of mortality alone, however …, different measures of mortality, and the sample period. In addition, our causality tests suggest that fertility is both …

whole. Research has focused on the effect postponing fertility has on the labor market outcomes for mothers and on the total … force participation and wages but may have negative effects on overall fertility, especially in the absence of supportive …