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 …

In this study we provide a new examination of the incentive effects of welfare rules on family structure. Focusing on … family is treated. In an empirical analysis conducted over the period 1996 to 2004 that correctly matches family structure … outcomes to welfare rules, we find significant effects of several welfare policies on family structure, both work …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

headship and raised fertility. In light of the substantial increase in immigration, we examine this question separately for … lower fertility. Thus, by the 2008-2013 period, any apparent son preference among natives in their fertility decisions …, we do find a positive fertility effect, suggesting son preference in fertility among this group. This interpretation is …