relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior … there was no change in the overall fertility rate, marital fertility declined, and there was an increase in nonmarital …

sex ratio in World War II contributed to a lower decline in fertility and child mortality rates in postwar Japan. In … particular, the fertility rate would have fallen by an additional 12% and the child mortality rate by an additional 13% between …

We study the effects of immigration on natives’ marriage, fertility, and family formation across US cities between 1910 …

unmarried women, thereby delaying female marriage, lowering fertility, and unleashing economic growth. We show that this … Black Death did not have to remain unmarried, so improved pastoral opportunities did not necessitate later marriage. There … is no consensus that late female marriage emerged after the Black Death. Furthermore, the relationship between …

involved in the legislative process), we show that an expansion in the welfare state increases the fertility, marriage, and … formation. Nevertheless, we also find that the welfare state decouples marriage and fertility, and therefore, alters the … divorce rates with a quantitatively stronger effect on the marriage rate. We conclude that the welfare state supports family …

gender equality, family planning, low fertility, freedom of spouse choice, older ages at marriage, and the recognition of … sexual relations and childbearing outside marriage. I also discuss how developmental idealism produces resistance against it …

equilibrium response, in a life-cycle matching model, of marriage hazards to war-time fertility and male-mortality shocks. Our …Low sex ratios are often equated with unfavorable marriage prospects for women, but in France after World War 1, the … marriage probability of single females rose 50%, despite a massive drop in the male/female ratio. We conjecture that the war …

This paper explores the interaction between wage inequality and the marriage and fertility decisions of young women. We … develop an equilibrium search model of marriage, divorce, and investment in children that allows for differential timing of … fertility. We show how patterns of fertility timing in U.S. data can be explained by the incentives for fertility delay implied …