Why do women wait? Matching, wage inequality, and the incentives for fertility delay

Review of Economic Dynamics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 815-855

  Caucutt, Elizabeth M ^a   Guner, Nezih ^b   Knowles, John ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fertility; Marriage; Returns to experience

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036814474     PISSN: 10942025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/redy.2002.0190     Document Type: Article

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