from the Family Resources Survey is used to identifythe characteristics of the divorced population. In the second part … adulthood. A number of insights emergedfrom our longitudinal analyses as well as from the cross-sectional analysisof the Family …

matching in the marriage market, and empirically evaluates thisin the context of arranged marriages among middle-class Indians … in-caste marriage. We find that in equilibrium, as predicted by our theoreticalframework, these preferences do little to … allows caste to remaina persistent feature of the Indian marriage market.[...] …

old), this study analyzes teenagers’ expectations and desires about marriage, having children, and becoming unwed parents … framework combines family context, opportunity cost, and social-psychological perspectives. Each perspective has predictive …’s education are aspects of family context that consistently show significant relationships with expectations and desires …

The paper investigates the relationship between work and family life in Britain.Using appropriate statistical …

theelderly in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. It argues that public policy inthe region assumes the family as primarily …This article examines the role of family and the state in relation to theliving standards of the elderly in East Asia … households, based on micro-data setsfor South Korea and Taiwan. It argues that private transfers do makeimportant contributions …

This paper uses microdata from the United States, Britain, and Japan toexamine the effects of family leave coverage on … women's employment afterchildbirth. Our three sample countries provide a range of family leavepolicy regimes. The United … States had no national family leave legislationprior to the passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act in 1993, but …

, intergenerational and family links indisadvantage, the labour market, deprived neighbourhoods, and the impact ofwelfare policy … - individual, family, community, national and global.[...] …