number of children and marital status were associated with women's household retirement savings at young and mid … retirement at young and mid-adulthood by family context. Additional children were negatively associated with several measures of … improved understanding of the relationship between family structure and economic preparation for retirement at earlier stages …

marital status). The increase in participation is driven by the increase in the participation rate of women who were married … or cohabiting and women with low educational attainment. Fertility status appears less important. Changes in composition …

effect on married women is driven by the discrimination against married women with no children and married women with one … child whose age is closer to the perceived optimal age to have children. For married women with two children, the effect … productivity for married women who need to care for children …

the quantity and the quality of children. We first present the theoretical model of intra-household bargaining in the … presence of conflicting family goals within a couple, and show that male scarcity (a decrease in the male to female sex ratio …) induces an increase in the number of children, but a decrease in the quality of children. Second, using the impact of World …