We present comparable evidence on intergenerational earnings mobility for Denmark, Finland, Norway, the UK and the US … family earnings, on the other hand, leads to estimates of intergenerational mobility in the Nordic countries which exceed …

Many migrants have non-labour motives to migrate and they differ substantially in their migration behaviour. Family … return decision. Using administrative panel data on the entire population of recent family immigrants to The Netherlands, we … for correlated unobserved heterogeneity across the migration and the divorce processes. The family migrants are divided …

should be positively associated with marriage probability for those single people who expect to marry a higher earning spouse …. These predictions are tested using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Marriage and divorce … marriage is used as a proxy for divorce risk …

bargaining power within marriage for women most affected by war deaths. The impact of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family …How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by …, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower rates of marriage and fertility, higher nonmarital births and reduced …

I develop an equilibrium, two-sided search model of marriage with endogenous population growth to study the interaction … between fertility, the age structure of the population and the age at first marriage of men and women. Within a simple two …-period overlapping generation model I show that, given an increase of the desired number of children, age at marriage is affected through …

of an efficiency loss. Efficiency can be restored through suitably designed marriage contracts because they can provide …) use of marriage is affected by the possibility of divorce …

the handover, HK women had lower marriage, higher divorce and higher emigration rates. These outcomes are predicted by our …

The twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Gary Becker's path-breaking Treatise on the Family provides an … occasion to reexamine both the American family and family economics. We begin by discussing how families have changed in recent … decades: the separation of sex, marriage, and childbearing; fewer children and smaller households; converging work and …

the family home, post-separation has remained unique to marriage.We provide a model where husbands can "ante up" the …Marriage used to be practically universal, but now persists as an institution for only some groups, while others choose … non-marital fertility. This paper posits that if one role of marriage is to insure one partner's investment in children …

In this paper, I address the U-shaped dynamics (a decrease followed by an increase) in the age at first marriage during …, in the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries age of marriage was much less correlated across Western … countries. I propose a simple model where age of marriage is a function of search frictions and a structural change of the …