consequences of joint custody laws for families in such areas as family formation, labor force participation, suicide, domestic …

beyond increasing the divorce rate. They can influence female labor supply, marriage and fertility rates, child well …

of each potential marriage decides whether to marry or to remain single at the beginning of the first period. Individuals … probability of the marital dissolution does not reduce divorce costs under gender-optimal matching rules. In such environments, an … that these results may also arise under stable matching rules that are not gender optimal. …

higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …This paper explores how historical gender roles become entrenched as norms over the long run. In the historical United … States, gender roles on the frontier looked starkly different from those in settled areas. Male-biased sex ratios led to …