Over the postwar, the U.S., Europe and Japan have experienced what may be thought of as medium frequency oscillations between persistent periods of robust growth and persistent periods of relative stagnation. These medium frequency movements, further, appear to bear some relation to the high...

Economic models of the household allocation have predicted that increased levels of education and wage rates of women would lead to increases in their labor supply and lower levels of fertility. In international comparisons, however, differences in this pattern appear which cannot easily be...