Pre-Marital Fertility and Labour Market Opportunities: Evidence from the 1970 British Cohort Study.
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 opp...
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Department of Economics (University of Oxford)
2004
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