, 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 … effects of policy variables such as rights of access to children post-separation and wealth division/alimony rules, as well as …

This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with … children and spousal specialization in home production of public goods and child care. We then study how child care provision …

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 … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college …

parents and children reduces or eliminates unequal bequests. Second, although the literature focuses on the bequest intentions …-of-life transfers. First, we show that unequal bequests are much more common than generally recognized, with one-third of parents with … wills planning to divide their estates unequally among their children. These plans for unequal division are particularly …

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 …

Given that young children are under the control of their parents, if the government has an interest in either the … welfare or the productivity of the former, it has no option but to act through the latter. Parents are, in the ordinary sense …

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

whether i) the parents control their fertility or not, ii) they value their children or not. Second, it investigates the … policy trivially satisfies horizontal equity, but if fertility is exogenous for some of (or all) the parents, horizontal …

The birth of children often shifts the power balance within a family. If family decisions are made according to the … birth of children may differ from the ex-ante optimal choice. In a model of cooperative decision making within a family, we …