Many studies have documented a negative association between macroeconomic indicators and fertility in times of economic …-cohorts of white women who entered the age of 34-36 years old being childless before the crisis, in 2004, and at the onset of the … crisis, in 2007. Our identification strategy relies on the assumption that these two adjacent cohorts of women differ only …

Many studies have documented a negative association between macroeconomic indicators and fertility in times of economic …-cohorts of white women who entered the age of 34-36 years old being childless before the crisis, in 2004, and at the onset of the … crisis, in 2007. Our identification strategy relies on the assumption that these two adjacent cohorts of women differ only …

headship and raised fertility. In light of the substantial increase in immigration, we examine this question separately for … lower fertility. Thus, by the 2008-2013 period, any apparent son preference among natives in their fertility decisions …, we do find a positive fertility effect, suggesting son preference in fertility among this group. This interpretation is …

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

By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show … that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men …. The paradox of women's declining relative well-being is found across various datasets, measures of subjective well …

more inhospitable routes. These changes are likely to place a heavier burden on illegal immigrant women as they are more … immigrant women from Mexico relative to men as a result of higher migration costs: 1) A decrease in the relative flow of older … and highly educated undocumented immigrant women relative to men; 2) A change in the skill composition of immigrant women …