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 … UK (1994-2001). The results highlight spurious negative effects of unemployment on family formation among men, which can …

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 …

This paper investigates the associations between preferred family size of married women aged 16-34 in rural Bihar … (India) and the fertility behaviours of their biological mother and mother-in-law. This information is based on scheduled … family size is first measured by Coombs scale, allowing us to capture latent desired number of children, and then categorized …