We develop a theory of marriage and fertility, distinguishing the choice to have children from the choice of the number … involuntary childless-ness, and explain why (1) single women are more often childless than married women but, when mothers, their …) the relationship between marriage rates and education is hump-shaped. We show how family patterns have been shaped by the …

at marriage, fertility rate, and sex ratio at birth, we rank countries according to the Missing Brides Index. …Even in countries where there is a male-biased sex ratio, it is still possible for the marriage market to be balanced … if men marry younger women and population is growing. We define a missing Brides Index to reflect the intensity of the …

. The estimates are carried out from French data (TDE). An econometric treatment of the endogeneity of the labour contract …

In this paper, we develop a test to detect the presence of endogeneity in conditional quantiles. Our test is a Hausman …-type test based on the distance between two estimators, of which one is consistent only under no endogeneity while the other is … consistent regardless of the presence of endogeneity in conditional quantile models. We derive the asymptotic distribution of the …