), both within the couple and between parents and children. We find a positive association between weak (strong) family values …

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 …

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 …

Women can bear own children or adopt them. Extending economic theories of fertility, we provide a first theoretical …

Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such …

children's shares together with economies of scale, using the observation of adult-specific goods and an extended version of … the Rothbarth method. The application on data from Côte d'Ivoire shows that children command a reasonable fraction of … have more command over household resources. Baseline results on children's shares are robust to using alternative …