consanguineous marriage as an acceptable practice, and that the reform reduced women's propensity to marry a first cousin or a blood … are more likely to have met their husbands outside of family networks, they are less likely to get forced into marriage … East and North Africa, and the rate is higher than 50 percent in some parts of the world. Consanguineous marriage generates …

divorce. Third, the widening college gap in children's family structure corresponds to a widening college gap in marriage …, women in their 20s, and women with less than a high school degree. Fifth, the college gap in family structure has …The share of children living in a two-parent family has declined sharply in the past 40 years, driven by a decline in …

This paper examines the appropriate tax treatment of the family in a series of analytical models and numerical examples … analysis, the optimal tax rates on secondary workers in the family are much lower than those on primary earners. Indeed, our …

longitudinal data, can potentially help address endogeneity issues arising in the estimation of the causal effect of family on …While a large literature is interested in the relationship between family and labor supply outcomes, little is known … in beliefs about how future family outcomes are related to future labor supply. Methodological contributions come from an …

be sub-optimal. However, investing in joint assets, which the marriage contract specifies are to be divided in the case … higher value of marriage. Empirically, we show that quasi-exogenous variation in access to collateralization leads to more … specialization, and that wealth has become a more important determinant of marriage in response to policies that have made marriage …

We examine what determines the family income that men and women experience over their adult lives. To this end, we … rates, work hours, earnings, marriage and spouse characteristics and family income to various shocks. Marital status has a … much larger effect on family income for women than men, while labor market shocks to men are more important than shocks to …

highlight issues of commitment in two primary family relationships: those between men and women, and those between parents and …The twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Gary Becker's path-breaking "Treatise on the Family" provides an … occasion to reexamine both the American family and family economics. We begin by discussing how families have changed in recent …

of women committing suicide following the introduction of unilateral divorce. No significant effect is found for men …. Domestic violence is analyzed using data on both family conflict resolution and intimate homicide rates. The results indicate a … large decline in domestic violence for both men and women in states that adopted unilateral divorce. We find suggestive …