earnings, employment, marriage prospects, potential spousal characteristics, and fertility. We find that students perceive …

state minimum-age marriage laws (EMA), we find that EMA precipitated marriage, delayed fertility within marriage, and … improved the educational and occupational outcomes of women, especially non-college women. Thus, fertility control, marriage …

Low fertility rates are a cause of social concern in many developed countries, with growing youth unemployment often … important insights into the type of policies that would be most effective in promoting fertility. …

This paper investigates the effect of earnings and employment opportunities on pre-marital fertility. Using data from a … sample of British women born in 1970, we estimate an independent competing risks hazard model of fertility and cohabitation … decisions. Our results show that individual earnings opportunities are negatively related to pre-marital fertility but do not …

Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two … fertility and female labour market participation, negative until the mid-1970s, has turned positive where developed, but not …

This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and …

panel data of different measures of fertility and examine the change in divorce laws. Total fertility declined in states … out-of-wedlock fertility. We suggest an explanation (and provide supportive evidence for it) based upon the effect of … fertility does not change, probably as a result of an increase in divorces and marital instability. The effect of changes in …