fertility decline. Resulting shortages of wives improved the treatment of adult women without reducing discrimination against … daughters or increasing women's autonomy. The latter goals can be reached only with fundamental changes in women's family … position-changes that are taking place only slowly. Kinship systems in China, the Republic of Korea, and North India have …

Introduction: Current Conditions of Work and Family in Japan -- 1 The Factors of Fertility Decline in Japan -- 2 The … fertility rates in a broader context, such as family life and working customs. The basic argument it puts forward is that Japan … family, which has led to an extremely low fertility rate in Japanese society. Further to this rather common explanation …

sources. The initial book will provide a collection of articles at the frontier of research on issues relevant to family … volumes will focus more narrowly on particular topics.The term family economics is, admittedly, quite broad; however, it was … -- Changes in the distribution of family hours worked since 1950 / Ellen R. McGrattan, Richard Rogerson -- The labor market and …