whether the ACA dependent care provision is associated with family structure and public program participation among young …

, fertility and children's living circumstances during 1990-2014. On average, trade shocks differentially reduce employment and … reduce marriage and fertility. Consistent with prominent sociological accounts, these shocks heighten male idleness and …

We present a dynamic lifecycle model of women's choices with respect to partnership status, labour supply and fertility … uncertainty about a partner's abusive type creates incentives for women to delay fertility, reduce fertility overall, divorce more … and subsidized childcare fail to do so because they encourage early fertility. Income support also leads to less …

relocate to new labor markets, individuals in the middle of their careers reduce fertility and adjust family formation … shocks across the life cycle on labor market outcomes and major life decisions: human capital investment, mobility, family …

first child raised fertility and increased the probability that the family was living without a father. We find that for our … associated with lower fertility, particularly for natives. Thus, by the 2008-2013 period, any apparent son preference in … fertility decisions appears to have been outweighed by factors such as cost concerns in raising girls or increased female …

. While there was no change in the overall fertility rate, marital fertility declined, and there was an increase in nonmarital … relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior. …

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 …

objectives cannot therefore be independent from the assessment on the nature of fertility behaviour. -- family taxation … ; horizontal equity ; fertility ; political economy ; median voter ; family size … family taxation using a household economics approach to behaviour; the nature of the winning policy is found to depend on …