Millions of households in developing countries receive financial support from family members working overseas. How do …

rising relative wages and quantities of high-skilled labor. We develop a theory where demand shifts toward ever more skill … market services. The theory is also consistent with a rising level of skill and skill premium, a rising relative price of …

allowing for dynamics in the response of divorce rates to the adoption of unilateral divorce laws. We in turn explore the … extremely fragile. We conclude first that the impact of unilateral divorce laws remains unclear. Second, extending Wolfers …

environment faced by the 1955 cohort. We find that a higher divorce probability and changes in wage structure are each able to … explain a large proportion of the LFP increase. Higher divorce risk increases LFP not because the latter contributes to higher … towards the adjustment of marital consumption in the face of increased divorce risk. …

-cycle model in which agents make consumption, saving, labor force participation (LFP), and marriage and divorce decisions subject …During the 1970s the US underwent an important change in its divorce laws, switching from mutual consent to a … unilateral divorce regime. Who benefitted and who lost from this change? To answer this question we develop a dynamic life …

Ghanaian custom views children as members of either their mother's or father's lineage (extended family), but not both … the widows' lineage - her father, brothers, and uncles. Deeming custom inadequate, and to promote the nuclear family …