perceived norms and personal aims. We argue that as long as the family has been the main provider of social protection, marriage … of marriage. We finally discuss the impact of late marriages on fertility, and argue that there need not be negative …We present a model of courtship in which the timing of marriage is affected by the cognitive dissonance between …

Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two …-stage game-theoretical model. The paper examines the effects of (i) family law (cost of obtaining a divorce, alimony … assignment of property rights over total goods and assets acquired within marriage, (iii) enforceability of bride-price contracts …

women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed …

decisions and intergenerational transfers are governed by self-enforcing family constitutions. We then show that first and …

of independent variables contains information on students’ personal characteristics, prior academic achievements, family …

from previous studies by developing a model that simultaneously controls for the endogeneity of union membership and union …

surprisingly, family child-rearing environment has sizeable negative and positive effects on behavioral problems index and math …

19 OECD countries for the period 1970-2000 in which we account for the endogeneity of “unwarranted” wage changes by …

matching procedure to deal with endogeneity problems. Our results, which are generally in line with the positive effects of …