the legal costs of divorce, on the interrelationships among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …, how many children to have and subsequently whether to stay together or separate. We make precise the idea that cooperation … in a household can be supported by self interest. Since the costs of raising children are unequally distributed among …

This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and … women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap …. College educated women marry later, have fewer children, are less likely to view marriage as “financial security”, are happier …

in the usual way, and an unconventional one allowing them to qualify for a pension by having children, and investing time …

Given that young children are under the control of their parents, if the government has an interest in either the …

factors underlying historical fertility limitation, the role of parental education has received little attention. We combine … their fertility before the demographic transition. Despite controlling for several demand and supply factors, we find a … negative residual effect of women's education on fertility. Instrumental-variable estimates, using exogenous variation in women …

displays both a benefit contingent on the contributions of children and a purely fertility-related component. …A pay-as-you-go pension scheme is associated with positive externalities of having children and providing them with … human capital. In a framework with heterogeneity in productivity, and stochastic and endogenous investment in fertility and …

communicate on the timing of their work. The main findings are that couples with children create less overlap in their work times … and this effect is more pronounced the younger the children. We find evidence for a togetherness preference of spouses …

: divorce has been introduced, and the number of marriages has decreased. We suggest that a taboo against divorce was part of … popular. We further notice that divorce is an extremely costly process, and once allowed it may act as an independent reason … subjectively evaluate the probability of facing a divorce using an availability heuristic. …

This paper presents an inter-temporal model of individual behavior with uncertainty about marriage and divorce and … higher marriage rates and higher divorce rates will be associated with higher savings rates in the presence of economies of …