state) contributions to children's expenses. Individuals internalize these valuations. I examine a Cournot model of … voluntary contribution to children's goods in a two-adult household, where both spouses may have marginal rates of substitution … interests of parents and those of children. Depending on the marginal rate of substitution between paternal and maternal …

children increases. In these advanced economies the negative impact on fertility deriving from the fact that fewer pregnancies …

This paper analyses the intra-household allocation of time to show gender differences in childcare. In the framework of … influenced by the presence of young children in the household, by the total non-labor income, and by the ratio of mothers' non …

-invariant unobservables that affect both family and work outcomes. Child gender also matters - a first son increases fathers' work hours by … supply model reveals that men who remain with female children are strongly positively selected (in terms of their work hours …) relative to men who remain with male children …

In this paper we examine how children affect happiness and relationships within a family by analyzing two unique … questions in the National Longitudinal Study of Youth's 1997 cohort. We find that (a) presence of children is associated with a … loss of spousal love; (b) loss of spousal love is associated with loss of overall happiness; but (c) presence of children …

the quantity-quality tradeoff to later work linking the economics of fertility to the theory of economic growth …

Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce … children conceived during first marriage. Our results indicate that the presence of children significantly reduces the … probability of marital disruption. In addition, the younger the children, the greater the deterrent effect. In contrast, we …

We document that, over the 20th century, age at first marriage followed a U-shaped pattern, while the gender education …