additional marriages are the result of an increased incentive of men to marry. -- Joint custody ; marriage ; divorce ; family law … of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different … data suggest that the introduction of joint custody led to a long-run increase in marriage rates. There is no convincing …

rights after separation. We use this improvement in women's bargaining power in marriage for a regression discontinuity …

) relative to men who remain with male children. -- child gender ; fatherhood ; labor supply ; family …-invariant unobservables that affect both family and work outcomes. Child gender also matters -- a first son increases fathers' work hours by …We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent cohorts of West German men in …

gender gaps in the labor market, support marital stability and promote children's well-being. In this paper, I show that … children's verbal development. …

, they can affect parents' time allocation and family dynamics. This paper examines how extending the school day affects … families by focusing on marriage dissolution. We exploit the staggered adoption of a policy that extended the availability of … childcare is likely to be one of the mechanisms that relaxed restrictions to marriage dissolution. …

; marriage market ; transfers …

, even though displacement episodes early in children's lives have the largest impacts on household income (because they … persist for many years), displacement episodes occurring in the children's teenage years have the largest effects on human … capital accumulation. We show that most of the effects operate through the intensive margin of schooling, and that children …

cooperation. -- Gender ; cohabitation ; marriage ; divorce ; alimony ; matrimonial property ; fertility ; division of labour …We use elementary game-theoretical concepts to compare domestic equilibria with and without marriage. In particular, we … examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the …

larger share of family resources. Policies empowering women can yield additional positive externalities for children's human … indicate that the HSAA improved children's height and weight. Furthermore, we uncover evidence supporting a mechanism whereby … care for children and improved child health. These results emphasize that children fare better when mothers control a …