Models of Marital Status and Childbearing
综述了婚姻状况和生育的微观经济模型及其对女性劳动供给的影响，重点分析了美国的人口趋势和实证规律，适合研究女性劳动供给与家庭决策的学者参考。
The authors review the microeconomic models of marital status and childbearing that have implictions for female labor supply. The geographic focus is on developed countries primarily the United States. 2 contains a review for the United States of trends in those demographic variables which are strongly associated with female labor supply: age at first marriage marital dissolution age at first birth the number of children born over the life cycle and the age pattern of fertility. Section 3 is concerned with demographic models and the empirical regularities in demographic behavior. The microeconomic models that attempt to explain the facts described in Sections 2 and 3 are then considered. 4 explores models of marital status and in Section 5 the single-period models of lifetime fertility decisions are reviewed. Section 6 is concerned with the efforts of Wolpin (1984) Newman (1985) and Hotz and Miller (1985) to extend the single-period fertility models to dynamic settings with uncertainty. (EXCERPT)