Portugal) in 2001 more than 70 percent of young adults between 18 and 34 years of age live with their parents, whereas the …

children under 18 have been left behind, with an average parental absence of 9.5 months. Using detailed information on family …

We study the effect of the size of the welfare state on family outcomes in OECD member countries. Exploiting exogenous … divorce rates with a quantitatively stronger effect on the marriage rate. We conclude that the welfare state supports family … organization of the family. …

children choosing self-employment as a way of balancing work and family commitments. This paper studies the relationship … between children and female self-employment in a country with family friendly policies and a generous welfare system: Sweden … women since there are other institutions in place aiming at facilitating the combination of work and family. Using Swedish …

We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent cohorts of West German men in …-invariant unobservables that affect both family and work outcomes. Child gender also matters - a first son increases fathers' work hours by …

previous economic models that treat children as goods consumed by adults rather than agents, we develop a noncooperative model …