that introduced unilateral divorce, which makes dissolution of marriage easier. Most of this effect is due to a decline of … divorce laws on the probability of entering and exiting marriage. Women planning to have children marry more easily with an … easier quot;exit optionquot; from marriage. Thus, more children are born in the first years of marriage, while the total …

, and the proportion of births within or outside of marriage. These equations are validated with multi-year data from … facing modern societies: between a relatively high marriage age, low nonmarital birth ratios, and high fertility, they can …

We first document three stylized facts about marriage and fertility in East Asian societies: They have the highest … marriage rates in the world, but the lowest total fertility; they have the lowest total fertility, but almost all married women … sufficiently boost fertility for highly educated women. On the other hand, the social stigma has negligible effects on marriage and …

Easier divorce has two effects on marriage rates and fertility. It dilutes the value of marriage, therefore reducing … marriage rates and marital fertility and potentially increasing out of wedlock fertility. But easier divorce reduces also the … commitment cost of marriage leading women to "try" marriage especially when in child bearing age or even already pregnant. We …

A very brief historical discussion of marriage, divorce, and out-of-wedlock births in England and France …

planning technologies, that likely contribute to the large changes in patterns of marriage and fertility observed in developed …