We derive the behavioural implications of legislation on the subject of marriage, divorce, de-facto unions, domestic … children more or less equally between them. The other is that the sign of the cross-country correlation between fertility and …

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

when the children will no longer be economically dependent on them. In a community-property jurisdiction, marriage will …In a separate-property jurisdiction, marriage may induce domestic cooperation, and enhance efficiency in the production … of children, because it may lend credibility to the prospective main earner's promise to compensate the main childcarer …

Even in countries where there is a male-biased sex ratio, it is still possible for the marriage market to be balanced … at marriage, fertility rate, and sex ratio at birth, we rank countries according to the Missing Brides Index. …

households to be di¤erentiated by ability to raise children, as well as wage rates. In a context where the government cannot … laissez-faire utility than high-wage households. Another is that children should be a tax asset to their parents only if … mix of taxes on the number of children, subsidies on child-speci…c commodities, income support for low-wage households …

education also requires to tax births. Indeed, education subsidies decrease the net cost of children such that parents can … subsidy on health expenditures because it decreases the cost of health relatively to the cost of the quantity of children … discussed in the light of family policies implemented in China and Sub-Saharan Africa. …

The paper re-examines the idea that a family can be viewed as a community governed by a self-enforcing constitution …

are assumed to decrease the time that parents spend on their children. The model shows that gender discrimination may …This paper focuses on the interaction between gender discrimination and household decisions. It develops a general … equilibrium model with endogenous fertility, endogenous labor supply and endogenous size of government spending. Family policies …

fewer children than a woman in a monogamous relationship as long as the preference for reproduction relative to consumption … monogamous or polygynous relationship, produces more children as polygyny becomes more prevalent in her neighborhood. We …