-invariant unobservables that affect both family and work outcomes. Child gender also matters - a first son increases fathers' work hours by …We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent cohorts of West German men in … supply model reveals that men who remain with female children are strongly positively selected (in terms of their work hours …

the quantity and the quality of children. We first present the theoretical model of intra-household bargaining in the … presence of conflicting family goals within a couple, and show that male scarcity (a decrease in the male to female sex ratio …) induces an increase in the number of children, but a decrease in the quality of children. Second, using the impact of World …

and the UK where work-family conflicts are the cause of high opportunity costs of motherhood, and the gender …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 …

. The effects seem to be driven by changes in gender and cultural norms, because there is a reduction in the prevalence of … arranged marriages with minimum involvement of the bride. Overall results suggest a change in gender norms after 18 years of …