Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce … children conceived during first marriage. Our results indicate that the presence of children significantly reduces the … probability of marital disruption. In addition, the younger the children, the greater the deterrent effect. In contrast, we …

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 …

causal effect of having children on female labor supply using IVF treated women in Denmark. Because observed chances of IVF …

We use longitudinal data describing couples in Australia from 2001-12 and Germany from 2002-12 to examine how …

This paper investigates certain issues of economic and ethnic segregation from the perspective of children in the three … contributed to larger economic polarisation among children in Swedish metropolitan regions. …

This paper analyzes the effect of family composition, and in particular the number of children, the age gap between the … children has a U -shaped effect on parents' involvement in social networks, with substantial differences between fathers and … on the father's involvement in social networks. The age gap between children has a positive effect on both parents …

effects of migration on the education and health of non-migrant children as well as the labor supply of non-migrant spouses … parental health. Results show that elderly parents receive lower time contributions from all of their children when one child …

likely that children who migrate face different challenges in attaining high school credentials depending upon their age at … immigration. This paper examines the education outcomes of a cohort of immigrants who arrived in Canada as children. The 2006 … Census is used and it is found that there is in fact a distinct change in the chances that children will hold a high …