explain the difference in fertility between these two groups using a switching regression analysis, which enables us to … household production. Unobserved self-selection plays a less important role. -- Fertility ; marriage ; cohabitation ; switching …

clearly increases the likelihood to have a first child. -- Family formation ; fertility ; unemployment ; cross …This paper investigates the impact of unemployment on the propensity to start a family. Unemployment is accompanied by … bad occupational prospects and impending economic deprivation, placing the well-being of a future family at risk. I …

contraception or age-specific fertility. The dearth of long-run family planning experiments has led economists to consider …. Using these instrumental variables to estimate the effect of this exogenous variation in fertility on family outcomes …, economists discover these cross effectsʺ of fertility on family welfare outcomes tend to be substantially smaller in absolute …