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

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 …

children. From this, should we infer that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? In this paper, we develop a non …-cooperative model of household decision making to answer this question. We show that when women have lower wages than men, they may … necessarily mean that giving money to women is a good development policy. We show that depending on the nature of the production …

) use of marriage is affected by the possibility of divorce …This paper studies how the risk of divorce affects the human capital decisions of a young couple. We consider a setting … where complete specialization (one of the spouses uses up all the education resources) is optimal with no divorce risk …

We demonstrate that the notion of a “family constitution” (self-enforcing, renegotiation-proof family norm) requiring … family constitutions …

's benchmark equilibrium reflects the current family policy consisting of joint taxation of married couples, monetary transfers and … results: First, policies which simply increase the family budget either via higher transfers (direct or in-kind) or via family …

the legal costs of divorce, on the interrelationships among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce …

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 …