In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities …

conservative areas were more likely to delay fertility/marriage and to accumulate human capital in the long run. We then show how …

events - such as getting married, being fired from a job, and having children - affect personality. However, these …

introduced in 2008. This reform imposed financial self-responsibility after a finalized divorce. It weakened the relative … bargaining position of the spouse with a claim for maintenance in the case of a potential divorce prior to the law change …

effect of teen childbearing. Despite this, there are still reasons to believe that children of teen mothers may do worse as … lower quality. Using Norwegian register data, we compare outcomes of children of sisters who have first births at different … for children born to the youngest teen mothers. Unlike previous research, we have information on fathers and find that …

, reducing hospitalization costs and the foregone income of mothers and improving the long-run socioeconomic outcomes of children …

-Samuelson effect), and thus on the incentive for parents to invest in their children's education, associated with international …

workers have a top ability if fertility is uncorrelated with ability and if the distribution of ability among sexually … produced children is the same as among their parents. In such a society, cloning has disappeared. If the distribution of genes … necessarily eliminate inequality; nor does it disappear in the long run. Finally, if fertility is negatively correlated with …