that increases in mortality occurred primarily among alcohol-related causes and among working-age men (the heaviest …

We introduce a general framework to analyze the trade-off between education and family size. Our framework incorporates … parental preferences for birth order and delivers theoretically consistent birth order and family size effects on children …'s educational attainment. We develop an empirical strategy to identify these effects. We show that the coefficient on family size in …

Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women … overtook and surpassed that of men and the ratio of men's to women's wage rates fell, traditional patterns of gender … specialization in work weakened. The primary source of the gains to marriage shifted from the production of household services and …

formation (by marriage or non-marital cohabitation) and first birth are almost identical for women reaching childbearing age in … distribution of completed childbearing around a two-child mode and a decrease in childlessness; (2) the decoupling of marriage and …

-cycle model in which agents make consumption, saving, labor force participation (LFP), and marriage and divorce decisions subject … mutual consent whereas men would prefer a unilateral system. Once we condition not only on gender but also on initial … productivity, we find that men in the top three quintiles of the initial productivity distribution are made better off by a …