We document the effect of unemployment insurance generosity on divorce and fertility using an identification strategy … women's layoffs; reductions in fertility associated with men's layoffs; and increases in fertility associated with women …

How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by …, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower rates of marriage and fertility, higher nonmarital births and reduced … bargaining power within marriage for women most affected by war deaths. The impact of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family …

the birth of a child. Our setting enables us to examine the effect of family policies in a region with patriarchal gender … increase in fertility rates, particularly for second births among married and older women, providing suggestive evidence of an … increase in completed fertility. Second, we find an increase in overall female employment, likely due to the desire to qualify …

regions that were more exposed to robots, the gender-income and labor-force-participation gaps declined. We then show that US … cohabitation. While there was no change in overall fertility rate, marital fertility declined, and there was an increase in out … increased uncertainty, reduced the relative marriage-market value of men, and the willingness to commit for the long term. …

composition on either mothers' marriage stability or labor supply. For black mothers, neither the gender composition, nor birth of …I employ the twin-first methodology to analyze the exogenous relationship between fertility, gender composition, and … mothers' marital status and labor supply. The regressions are based on the combination of genders and fertility in the first …