events - such as getting married, being fired from a job, and having children - affect personality. However, these …

earnings, employment, marriage prospects, potential spousal characteristics, and fertility. We find that students perceive …

earnings, employment, marriage prospects, potential spousal characteristics, and fertility. We find that students perceive …

Adolescent fertility in low- and middle-income countries presents a severe impediment to development and can lead to … donors should adopt a rights-based approach to adolescent fertility and shift their focus from the proximate to distal causes … differential impacts of adolescent fertility in different contexts, and 3) investigating other the impact of adolescent fertility …

occupation, marital status and fertility choices of women over the life cycle. A discrete choice dynamic utility maximization …, ability, race, and the presence of young children. …

with 7.7 - 12.5% higher incidence of fertility discontinuation among women without a son. This son-preferring behaviour is …

The economic theory of fertility choice builds predominantly on the unitary model of the household, in which there is a …, however, that many (potential) mothers and fathers disagree on whether to have children, on how many children to have, and on … bear on fertility choice, and we point out promising future directions for this line of research. …

Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper … more effective because we do not find any detrimental long-term effects for exposed children from higher socioeconomic … backgrounds. In contrast, exposed children from low socioeconomic backgrounds have significantly worse labor market outcomes as …

Using microdata from Current Population Survey Fertility supplements 1990-2010 we examine whether Common Law Marriage …