The aim of this paper is to investigate how occupational prospects affect first-birth decisions of men and women. Contrasting the continental conservative German welfare state with the liberal market economy of the UK, the focus of analyses rests on how welfare state alignment affects fertility...

Thanks to the recent development of rich datasets including both economic and cultural variables, economists are now able to properly measure the impact of culture on economic behaviors. This has conduct to the emergence of models where individual fertility results from the interaction between...

The early contributions to the economic literature on this sub- ject assume that only market goods yield utility, and that the only way adults can secure the consumption of these goods in old age is by saving. More recent contributions recognize that the elderly derive utility also from the care...

This study investigates whether a female’s entry into motherhood is influenced by the kin orientation of her social network. We use data from the British Household Panel Study (BHPS) and define kin orientation as the number of relatives who a female reports within her three closest...

This article explores family behaviours and attitudes in Israel over the last decades through the lens of the Second Demographic Transition (SDT). Israel is divided by religious affiliation, the level of religiosity, ethnic origin and timing of immigration. Although fertility transition to...