supply and earnings. Mothers married to low-income men showed larger responses in employment, especially if they had younger … children. They were more likely to remain in the labour force and had higher rates at which they entered it. While more likely … higher-income husbands. Likewise, there are no statistically significant responses among married men. …

rights. Because of the presence of transaction costs in marriage, altruistic parents cannot contract upon the investments … they make into their children, but can reduce the resulting inefficiencies by determining ex ante the parent who would be … welfare more or, viceversa, to the parent with the lowest valuation; (iii) if one parent?s investment is significantly more …