more related tothe diminishing willingness to marry than a changing attitude toward fertility. In asetting where … individuals choose marriage because of the gains from joint production ofchild quality as well as the division of labor, the … become less desirable, and consequently a marriage market with more positiveassortative mating will be observed.The increase …

of personhood. Embryo adoption raises several questions surrounding the institution of marriage. Due to its untraditional … method of procreation, embryo adoption calls into question the role of procreation within marriage. In Chapter Two, I explore … the nature of the marriage relationship by offering Lisa Cahill’s definition of marriage which involves both a spiritual …

I argue that household specialization and investment in firm-specific human capital explainthe male marriage premium … not change upon marriage. The model has two other predictions, that among the self-employed wages should increase upon … marriage, and that the cross-sectional marriage premium should have declined over time. Using the Panel Study on Income …

This 14-year longitudinal study extends previous research on money in marriage by using multiple measures of money to … first decade and a half of marriage, thus making it possible to examine the effects of money on marital quality across time … marriage increased over time such that by the time couples were nearly a decade a half into marriage couple’s income was …

cohabitation and would only get married if they antic-ipated a successful marriage. One prominent explanation for the antithetic …

economic development through its impact on productivity, fertility and human capital investment.In the second chapter of this … counteracting disease).In the third chapter of this dissertation, I model the impact of child disease burden on fertility and human … capital investment. The fertility response to a decline in child mortality depends on the morbidity effect of the disease, the …

fertility and relative wages using a panel estimation method. I also compare the behavioral changes in the labor force …

stabilization and eventual decline of the population, via fertility at below-replacement levels for an extended period of time …. According to the 2000 census, the total fertility rate (TFR) for China was 1.22—well below 2.1, the replacement level of … fertility. However, the country’s TFR fluctuated spatially with rates of .86, 1.08, and 1.43, for cities, towns, and rural …

John Bongaarts' proximate determinants model of fertility has accounted for over 90 percent of variation in the total … fertility rate (TFR) of primarily developing nations and historical populations. Recently, dramatically low fertility rates …. This study follows Knodel, Chamratrithirong, and Debavalya's 1987 analysis of fertility decline in Thailand by conducting …