-quality panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. We also contribute to the rapidly growing literature on life satisfaction … marriage as important factors in determining longevity. For example, a one-log point increase in real household monthly income …-economic characteristics (with the exception of age) combined. Individuals with a high level of life satisfaction when initially interviewed …

The prevalence and stability of marriage has declined in the United States as the economic lives of men and women have … converged. Family change has not been uniform, however, and the widening gaps in marital status, relationship stability, and …-Oaxaca decompositions of differences in key family outcomes across education groups show that, though individual non-cognitive traits are …

decades: the separation of sex, marriage, and childbearing; fewer children and smaller households; converging work and … children. We conclude by discussing the effectiveness of policies to target benefits to certain family members (e.g., children …The twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Gary Becker’s path-breaking Treatise on the Family provides an …

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 … conclude that children conceived before first marriage increase the risk of marital disruption. Finally, the higher the parents …

commodities to investment in children. For some, these changes meant that marriage was no longer worth the costs of limited … relationships. The college educated typically cohabit before marriage, but they marry before conceiving children and their marriages …Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women …

In this paper we examine how children affect happiness and relationships within a family by analyzing two unique … questions in the National Longitudinal Study of Youth's 1997 cohort. We find that (a) presence of children is associated with a … loss of spousal love; (b) loss of spousal love is associated with loss of overall happiness; but (c) presence of children …

aims to answer the questions: What works in terms of early stimulation for young children in developing countries? For whom …. Firstly, a brief discussion of the importance of early stimulation for young children in developing countries is provided …

Does availability of common law marriage (CLM henceforth) in the U.S help explain variation in the labor force … legal protection to household producers at the margin between single status and marriage, we expect it to discourage labor …

available options that conform to their preferences. One market that stands to benefit from this process is that of marriage … of this market: marriage rates. Exploring sharp temporal and geographic variation in the pattern of consumer broadband … marriage markets. I also provide some suggestive evidence that Internet has likely crowded out other traditional meeting venues …