adults to provide attention for elderly parents carries over from a world where sexually indifferentiated individuals … allocation of domestic resources on condition that individual preferences are transmitted from parents to children, and having …

We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using … marriage market, and affected marital outcomes of individuals whose qualification attainment were unaffected. We also decompose … the difference in marriage probabilities between unqualified individuals and those with basic qualifications into causal …

This paper analyzes how culture affects the engagement of parents in child-rearing activities, and time allocations of … parents inside the family. We use data from the World Value Survey to construct a country-specific measure of the value …-and second-generation migrant parents in Australia. We show that migrant parents from countries in which obedience is more valued …

We construct a dynamic model of child development where forward-looking parents and children jointly take actions to … money investments in their child, parents also choose whether to use explicit incentives to increase the child's self …

This paper bridges two distinct areas of inquiry: the economic theory of the family and behavioral research on time …-specific capital over time. At any given point in time, the gains to continued marriage depend on the accumulated stock of this capital …, sophisticated couples - but not naive ones - may choose to enter marriage on terms which make divorce more costly to obtain. Third …

Changing distributions of male and female types affect the measurement of education-based marriage market sorting. We …

We investigate how job displacement affects whom men marry and study implications for marriage market matching theory … of the marriage market to derive several implications of our empirical findings: (i) husbands’ and wives’ incomes are … substitutes rather than complements in the marriage market; (ii) our findings are hard to reconcile with one-dimensional matching …

. Importantly, we find that socio-economic status of a family has no explanatory power as soon as we control for parents' economic …