Trends toward later and less marriage and childbearing have been even more pronounced
in East Asia than in the West. At the same time, many other features of East Asian families …

Hillary Clinton may have popularized the proverb" it takes a village to raise a child" in her
1996 book, but interest in who raises children had been widespread among both …

This paper proposes a new method to infer gender preferences from birth spacing. We apply
it to Africa, where the least is known about gender preferences. We show that son …

This book provides the reader with a comprehensive introduction to the distinguishing
features of Chinese families. This first full scale study seeks to understand Chinese families …

Low fertility across Europe highlights the need to understand reproductive decisions in high-
income countries better. Availability of support may be one factor influencing reproductive …

Exploiting original data from a Senegalese household survey, we provide evidence that
fertility choices are partly driven by women's needs for widowhood insurance. We use a …

Despite the tendency of some academic disciplines to assume that the nuclear family is
normative, the family takes a number of different forms cross-culturally. Regardless of family …

A potential manifestation of son preference prevalent in Asia is gender-specific birth-
spacing. The time couples wait before moving on to subsequent pregnancy remains short as …

BACKGROUND Support from families can reduce costs of reproduction and may therefore
be associated with higher fertility for men and women. Family supportiveness, however …

Kin are generally expected to behave more cooperatively with their relatives than with
unrelated individuals, and this cooperative behavior may result in positive effects on fitness …