We study the effect of educational attainment on family formation using regression discontinuity designs generated by … margin does not increase the likelihood that men form families. In contrast, women admitted to further education are more … set of results using survey data. These suggest that the positive association between men's education and family formation …

with and without wage rigidities. The paper then explores time series data from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico to …

This paper investigates the role of structural reforms - privatization, financial reform and trade liberalization as … financial liberalization and privatization. These results are robust to different measures of reforms, split samples, and … potential endogeneity and omitted variables biases. -- Privatization ; financial reform ; trade liberalization ; foreign direct …

women, such as policies that subsidize the diffusion and use of best practice birth control technologies. Evaluation of the … consequences of such family planning programs almost never assess their long-run consequences, such as on labor supply, savings, or … contraception or age-specific fertility. The dearth of long-run family planning experiments has led economists to consider …

marital disruption on data from the nationally – representative 2009 Family and Social Subjects survey. We found that the … increasing presence of first mover migrant women (coming from Latin America and Eastern Europe) is associated with higher … separation risks among natives, especially for couples with lower human capital. Our findings add to our understanding of family …

Increasing women's empowerment is a key objective of many development programs, both as a principal goal and as a path … productive assets to increase women's empowerment among sugar farmers in Uganda. We document that this intervention increases … women's access to resources and agency by a substantial amount. In contrast, a behavior change intervention (training …

women) can help explain measurable outcomes such as marriage formation, intra-marriage distribution of consumption goods …

The age at which women enter first marriage is known to be a major factor in marital instability. But to date possible … differences by race/ ethnicity have not been examined. We use data from the 2006-2010 National Survey of Family Growth to examine … differences by race/ethnicity in the shape of the curve relating women's age at entry into first marriage to marital instability …

is provided in LF. Second, the weights children and parents have in the family bargaining problem might differ in general …