higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …

the timing of marriage, must probably be understood as the principal origin of different patterns of fertility across … into motherhood and first marriage is based. Individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) are … merged with a rich set of district-level contextual data to estimate first birth and marriage probabilities of western German …

-dimensional genome that determines their cognitive and physical characteristics. Young adults optimally search for a marriage partner … that institutional factors significantly impact economic performance by affecting marriage, family size, and the …

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 … years of marriage, while marital fertility does not change, probably as a result of an increase in divorce and marital …

This study comprehensively examines export tariff liberalization’s influence on women’s marital and fertility decisions … that export tariff cuts significantly lower women’s marriage rates, delay their marriage, and reduce the number of children …

which have occurred over the past decades; delayed entry into marriage and decline in fertility levels across both developed … marriage timing and fertility level differences using both economic and cultural factors. The results indicate that economic … nations. In developing countries, however, marriage timing is explained by the level of female education and religious …

In this paper, we study the effects of immigration on natives’ marriage, fertility, and family formation across US … aggregate migration flows, we find that immigration raised marriage rates, the probability of having children, and the …

dissolution as well as fertility among immigrants, and examine the evidence collected from the main studies in the area. With … regard to marriage we focus on the determinants of intermarriage, the stability of these unions, and the timing of union … formation. Marriage propensities are embedded in the cultural background of migrants and, hence, the capacity to form and …

responses among higher-income individuals. Resources generate persistent increases in marriage for single men and women but do … not increase the likelihood existing marriages are preserved. Fertility is modestly accelerated by a lottery win, but … there is little effect on total fertility. Our results support a causal pathway behind differences in homeownership and …

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