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While efforts to introduce a new federal paid family leave program continue to stall in Congress, the number of states that have introduced their own programs climbed to 11 last year. [Joshua [...]

A declining median age at first union in the former Soviet republics before and immediately after the transition from socialism balances the impact of increased union instability.  [Sunnee [...]

The analysis reveals strongly elevated second birth rates among men and women in the managerial classes, and upward mobility after the first birth is associated with higher second birth rates, [...]

The study found lower fertility rates in unions after 2010, increasing dissolution rates amongst cohabiting couples, and long-term declines in the transition to marriage. READ MORE

Daily lives of families raising 6-month-old children, together with the development of those children after the gestation period and the course of childbirth and its circumstances, as well as at [...]

As a lack of proper people to take care of babies is the primary factor that prevents childbearing, China is working to invest more to improve nursery institutions to decrease families’ burdens [...]

Economically inactive women experience faster motherhood transitions and have more children by age 40 than women with stable full-time careers. For men, having an unstable career associates with [...]

In order to better understand its driving forces, this study examines whether it is driven by differential behavior or compositional changes across population subgroups, for the empirical case of [...]

The collapse in fertility coupled with increased longevity leads to a rapid ageing of societies. The working age population of the 38 member countries of the OECD is projected to decline by [...]

Several Chinese cities have introduced new policies to help families with multiple children buy a home. Hangzhou, for example, has released a referential policy for the housing provident [...]