and simplifies its estimation. I introduce the "additivity assumption" which postulates that the household production …

commodities to investment in children. For some, these changes meant that marriage was no longer worth the costs of limited … different functions among different groups. The poor and less educated are much more likely to rear children in cohabitating … relationships. The college educated typically cohabit before marriage, but they marry before conceiving children and their marriages …

supply of married women with young children. We argue that the mechanism through which proximity increases labor supply is … for married women with young children living in close proximity to their mothers or their mothers-in-law compared with …