This paper investigates the impact of unemployment on the propensity to start a family. Unemployment is accompanied by … UK (1994-2001). The results highlight spurious negative effects of unemployment on family formation among men, which can … and the UK where work-family conflicts are the cause of high opportunity costs of motherhood, and the gender …

This paper investigates the impact of unemployment on the propensity to start a family. Unemployment is accompanied by … UK (1994-2001). The results highlight spurious negative effects of unemployment on family formation among men, which can … and the UK where work-family conflicts are the cause of high opportunity costs of motherhood, and the gender …

This paper investigates the impact of unemployment on the propensity to start a family. Unemployment is accompanied by … UK (1994-2001). The results highlight spurious negative effects of unemployment on family formation among men, which can … the UK where work-family conflicts are the cause of high opportunity costs of motherhood, and the gender-specific division …

contribute to the gender wage gap, and how institutional elements - especially family policies - affect this relationship. Our …We use cross-national data on 26 EU countries to assess how much children and the responsibilities related to them … analysis is based on a decomposition that reveals what portion of the gender wage gap may be attributed to: (1) the motherhood …

the decline in family size reduced competition between children for resources from their parents. The combined effect has … father to a more egalitarian one in which the wife and the children have been empowered. This transformation coincided with … family size. To explain the connection between these trends and the transformation in family relationships we develop a novel …

across children within the family. Older siblings, especially firstborn males, are more likely to migrate, while having more …This paper examines the causal effects of family size and demographic structure on offspring's international migration … teenagers' and young adults' migration outcomes. We find no empirical support for the hypothesis that high fertility drives …

The nineteenth-century American family experienced tremendous demographic, economic, and institutional changes. By … using birth order effects as a proxy for family environment, and linked census data on men born between 1835 and 1910, we … study how the family's role in human capital production evolved over this period. We find firstborn premiums for …

The nineteenth-century American family experienced tremendous demographic, economic, and institutional changes. By … using birth order effects as a proxy for family environment, and linked census data on men born between 1835 and 1910, we … study how the family's role in human capital production evolved over this period. We find firstborn premiums for …

, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender … fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …

In response to the wide-ranging consequences of falling fertility rates, governments across high-income countries are … considering how to increase rates of family formation. Despite significant scientific interest, there remains limited empirical … evidence on how education shapes family choices across the life cycle. We study the effect of educational attainment on family …