the interactions between climate change and population dynamics. We develop an analytical model of endogenous fertility …

participation in the labor market and potentially affect preferences. Still, health remains remarkably understudied as a fertility … determinant. We explore the association between health and fertility, using uptake of doctor-certified sickness absences and long …/or changes in the health-fertility association have contributed to the distinct fall in the total fertility rate in Norway since …

fertility rate and emigration rate are going to develop in Africa. Even modest increases in emigration from Africa would …

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 …

in the 1980s to empirically examine the causal impact of women's education on fertility in rural China by difference …

Fertility in the US exhibits an increasingly more procyclical pattern. We argue that women's breadwinner status is … behind procyclical fertility: (i) women's relative income in the family has increased over time; and (ii) women are more … effect of women's income. Our quantitative framework features a general equilibrium OLG model with endogenous fertility and …

estimate a dynamic programming model of fertility decisions with microdata on fertility histories. We leverage the quasi … reduce fertility by allowing parents to efficiently reach their preferred sex mix, it could also increase it. This is because …

findings indicate that over March through December of 2020, marriage rates declined by 54% and divorce rates by 43%. By the end … of 2020, divorce rates recover back to baseline levels, but marriage rates remain 30% below the 2017-2019 baseline level …

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 state and federal dependent health insurance mandates on marriage rates of young adults, ages … increased insurance coverage rates, but also came with unintended implications for the marriage decisions of young adults …. Almost all state mandates explicitly prohibited marriage as a condition of eligibility, thereby directly discouraging …