examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the …

Since the 1970s almost all states have introduced a form of joint custody after divorce. We analyze the causal effect … of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different … evidence for an impact of joint custody on divorce rates. In sum, joint custody has increased the stock of married people and …

The economic theory of fertility choice builds predominantly on the unitary model of the household, in which there is a …, however, that many (potential) mothers and fathers disagree on whether to have children, on how many children to have, and on … bear on fertility choice, and we point out promising future directions for this line of research. …

The paper explores the relationship between religiosity and fertility among Catholics in Spain, thereby answering the … question whether the two parallel trends of dramatic drops in fertility and in religiosity are inter-related. It looks at …) of religiosity (rather than religious affiliation) on fertility. Fertility is related to the various dimensions of …

in three variations: a 'decentralized' scheme, in which the parents control the purse-strings, but the children dispose …

engage in unpaid work, and to marry and have children, is formulated as a forward-looking discrete choice dynamic programming …

is still largely unclear what caused them. This paper presents a new unified explanation of the fertility Boom-Bust that … the entry of the D-cohort is associated with increased births in the 1950s, while its retirement turned the fertility Boom … completed fertility of all cohorts involved. …

workers have a top ability if fertility is uncorrelated with ability and if the distribution of ability among sexually … produced children is the same as among their parents. In such a society, cloning has disappeared. If the distribution of genes … necessarily eliminate inequality; nor does it disappear in the long run. Finally, if fertility is negatively correlated with …

the household. Using a sample of PSID-CDS children, we investigate whether the birth order effects in their outcomes are …