This paper links the effects that automation has on labor to fertility timing decisions. The intuition behind such a relation is formalized by an optimal stopping model of fertility, where having a child is viewed as an investment. Its opportunity cost is modeled as a stochastic process, which...

The adoption of industrial automated technology in the US is associated with a decrease in wages, stronger for men than for women. This paper investigates how this affects households' allocation of time by constructing a measure of labor markets' exposure to industrial robots. Higher exposure is...