In most Western economies, the flourishing of the Welfare State has coincided with a decline of the role of the family …: divorce has been introduced, and the number of marriages has decreased. We suggest that a taboo against divorce was part of … the informal safety net in a period when social protection was provided by the family. Once the State started offering …

This paper presents an inter-temporal model of individual behavior with uncertainty about marriage and divorce and … higher marriage rates and higher divorce rates will be associated with higher savings rates in the presence of economies of … which accommodates the possible presence of economies or diseconomies of scale from marriage. We show that a scenario of …

This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with … positive assortative matching, where in equilibrium the poorest women stay single. Couples have to decide on the number of … mothers than for single mothers. We show that this increases the number of single mothers and the divorce rate. Using survey …

women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed …

family tax splitting increases labor supply and welfare. …

A large fraction of domestically abused women report that their partners interfere with their participation in …

women differ; (2) Although there are significant individual variations, on average the utility functions of men and women … production is influenced by family size, but this does not hold for the male; (5) Both the male and the female have a backward …

variables and furthermore consider household production. Surinamese/Antillean and Turkish women differ from Dutch women because … that the bargaining power of women in more traditional households is relatively low, but our estimation results do not … and women replace housework hours by paid labor if their hourly wage rate increases but do the opposite when the hourly …