This paper presents estimates of delayed childbearing and permanent childlessness in the United States and the determinants of those phenomena.The estimates are derived by fitting the Coale-McNeil marriage model to survey data on age at first birth and by letting the parameters of the model...

The chapter presents an investigation on those microeconomic models of marital status and childbearing that contains implications for female labor supply. The chapter focuses its discussion primarily on the developed countries, principally the United States, but refers to developing country...