Women can bear own children or adopt them. Extending economic theories of fertility, we provide a first theoretical …

reduced child support.These incentives have negative effects on children's human capital development and health, with economic … children's time spent with relatively high quality mothers, as fathers pursue joint custody in response to the policy …

international adoptions while there is no substitutability between ART and adoption of related children. Our findings suggest that …

Using U.S. Census data for the years 1960-1980, we study the impact of unilateral divorce on outcomes of children (age … fraction of mothers below the poverty line. For children, we find not only negative results on investment, measured as the … probability that a child goes to a private school, but also on child outcomes, measured by the likelihood of children who were …

We estimate the effect of divorce legalization on the long-term well-being of children. Our identification strategy … exposed (or not exposed) to divorce as children, thus leading to a difference-in-differences approach. We find that women who … up under illegal divorce. These effects are not found for men. We find no effects of divorce legalization on children …

have more children and are more likely to become home owners. These results demonstrate the causal effect of property …