The twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Gary Becker’s path-breaking Treatise on the Family provides an … occasion to reexamine both the American family and family economics. We begin by discussing how families have changed in recent … decades: the separation of sex, marriage, and childbearing; fewer children and smaller households; converging work and …

this paper, we study the effect of a monthly cash subsidy on young adults' emancipation, family formation, and fertility … youngsters delay emancipation and family formation because they are budget constrained. …

increasingly important, emerging as a widely used step on the path to marriage. Out-of-wedlock fertility has also risen, consistent … pill and women’s control over their own fertility; sharp changes in wage structure, including a rise in inequality and … a new matching technology. We note that recent changes in family forms demand a reassessment of theories of the family …

Since the onset of democracy in 1975, both total fertility and Mass attendance rates in Spain have dropped dramatically …. I use the 1985 and 1999 Spanish Fertility Surveys to study whether the significance of religion in fertility behavior … - both in family size and in the spacing of births - has changed. While in the 1985 SFS family size was similar among …

Exogenous variation in fertility from parental preferences for sex-mix among their children is used to identify the … causal effect of family size on several measures associated with either the allocation of resources towards children within … the household or the outcomes of these investments. Results using data from Colombia suggest that family size has negative …

and dissolution, fertility, female time allocation, education, wages, and wealth. Using a theoretical framework based on … Gary Becker’s contributions to the economics of the family, religious affiliation is seen to affect these outcomes because …

The Nordic countries have remarkably high participation rates of mothers and a moderate decrease of fertility rates … family friendly policies chosen in the Nordic countries are unique. The availability of generous parental leave schemes … evaluate family-friendly policies in the ‘Nordic model’ with respect to the two modes of child care i.e. either parental care …

, labor supply and wealth accumulation; union formation and dissolution; and fertility. The paper also comments on the growing …

the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility …