We present a dynamic lifecycle model of women's choices with respect to partnership status, labour supply and fertility … uncertainty about a partner's abusive type creates incentives for women to delay fertility, reduce fertility overall, divorce more … subsidized childcare when the mother is working. While higher wages reduce women's overall exposure to abuse, both income support …

Is unemployment the overwhelming determinant of domestic violence that many commentators expect it to be? The … abuse: an increase in male unemployment decreases the incidence of intimate partner violence, while an increase in female … unemployment increases domestic abuse. Combining data on intimate partner violence from the British Crime Survey with locally …

that runs against the intuition that family ties weaken self-selection. Secondary earners in couples are more weakly self …

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 …

the small differences in married men's and the large differences in married women's hours worked in the data. Taking the … generating the low cross-country correlation between married men's and women's hours worked in the data, and for explaining the … variation of married women's hours worked across European countries …

's job opportunities. The results suggest that increasing international migration may reduce women's career investments …

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 …

influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and …, we find that family structure is a driver of the education gender gap, with a higher female to male enrollment rate ratio …

the separate effects of equal opportunities for women in the labor market and improved contraception on female education …

Differences between the voting behavior of men and women have become one of the most significant issues in social … men and women in Turkey. There are significant differences between the genders, nevertheless. In particular, the effect of …