This paper is the first of its kind to study utility interdependence in marriage using information on subjective well …

of marriage and two children as a typical family unit is negative for women in the labor force. …This paper empirically examines the life-time joint decision problem of marriage, childbearing, and labor force … lower for less-educated women. As regards family formation, utility gains and losses from the first child are insignificant …

A long-term relationship such as marriage will not operate efficiently without sanctions for misconduct, of which …

We develop a theoretical model of mating behavior and parental investment in children under asymmetry in kin … recognition between men and women that provides a microfoundation for the institution of marriage. In the model, men and women …. As a socially sanctioned commitment device among partners, the institution of marriage reduces this risk by restraining …

family from the study of evolutionary biology. Given the increased prevalence in recent decades of unwed parenthood, divorce … of the family. The discussion references many papers from anthropology and biology. Because of the intimate connection … between the family and reproduction, it should not be surprising that there is much to be learned about the economics of the …

there differences among genders? Does “family” have an impact? Is the effect of family related variables similar among … internationally, especially in direction of the United States. The impact of the “family” on the probability of taking a postdoc …

misalignment of the Ringgit currency and thereby deducing effective policy actions. Second, the effort of Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM … complicated monetary exchange models may do so comfortably, at least in the text of Malaysia. Nonetheless, such attempt should be …