significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of positive assortative mating; (v) more children … fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a …

dimensions, exploring in detail the role of fertility, and possibly divorce in the integration process. We exploit rich …, identifying marital selection and fertility choices as fundamental socialization mechanisms. The estimated cultural intolerance of …, as well as fertility and homogamy rates, slow-down the cultural integration of some immigrant ethnic minorities …

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply but, for the second generation, also examines fertility and education. We … to distinguish the effect of culture from that of social capital. These results support a growing literature that …

members (e.g., children) or to promote marriage and fertility … changed in recent decades: the separation of sex, marriage, and childbearing; fewer children and smaller households …

Fathers' multiple-partner fertility (MPF) is associated with substantially worse educational outcomes for children. We …. We find that the effect of having a father who had a previous childless marriage is similar to the effect of fathers' MPF …

The last 60 years have seen the emergence of a dramatic socioeconomic gradient in marriage, divorce, cohabitation, and …, are less likely to transition quickly into marriage, and have much higher divorce rates. There are two broad sets of … traditional gender-based specialization have declined, the value of marriage has decreased relative to cohabitation, which offers …

This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and … women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college …

We explore several problems in drawing causal inferences from cross-sectional relationships between marriage …, motherhood, and wages. We find that heterogeneity leads to biased estimates of the quot;directquot; effects of marriage and … motherhood on wages (i.e., effects net of experience and tenure); first-difference estimates reveal no direct effect of marriage …