Much of macroeconomics is concerned with the allocation of physical capital, human capital,
and labor over time and across people. The decisions on savings, education, and labor …

We analyze the emergence of the first socioeconomic institution in history limiting fertility:
west of a line from St. Petersburg to Trieste, the European Marriage Pattern (EMP) reduced …

In this chapter we revisit the relationship between income and fertility. There is
overwhelming empirical evidence that fertility is negatively related to income in most …

We argue that one major cause of the US post-war baby boom was the rise in female labour
supply during World War II. We develop a quantitative dynamic general equilibrium model …

Before Gary Becker, fertility choice was widely considered to be outside the realm of
economic analysis. Apart from intellectual tradition, one reason for this was that the data on …

Fertility in the US exhibits an increasingly more procyclical pattern. We argue that women's
breadwinner status is behind procyclical and lower fertility:(i) women's relative income in the …

Many papers show that aggregate fertility is pro-cyclical over the business cycle. Using data
on more than 100 million births from 1988 to 2014, we show that for recent recessions in the …

The emergence of the term sandwich generation is believed to be a phenomenon that is
common in Indonesian society. What's more, the number of baby boomers has become a …

Fertility in the US exhibits an increasingly more procyclical pattern. We argue that women's
breadwinner status is behind procyclical fertility:(i) women's relative income in the family has …

Poor families have more children and transfer less resources to them. This suggests that
family decisions about fertility and transfers dampen intergenerational mobility. To evaluate …