This paper studies the effects of different income transfers on individual welfare, in both marriage and divorce … situations, and on family decisions. We assume three generations within the family. We develop a sequential game that, in a first … losses derived from the marriage. We have also found that the donor of an intergenerational transfer can behave in a …

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 … dampened the persistent downturn in marriage. Our empirical evidence is fully consistent with the supposition that these …

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

-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 … supply model reveals that men who remain with female children are strongly positively selected (in terms of their work hours …

This paper examines whether parental marriage confers educational advantages to children relative to cohabitation. We … enable us to identify the children who were affected by parental marriage due to this marriage boom. Our analysis addresses … parents do better than children with cohabiting parents. However, once we control for observable family background, or use …

respond to children's endowments and to differences in endowments among siblings? Parental investment decisions depend both on … parental preferences regarding inequality in the distribution of their children's quality and on how costly it is for parents … to add to their children's quality by investing in their human capital (or the price effect). Our empirical strategy …

, 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 …

We investigate the impact of male-female conflict over gender norms on marital outcomes. As marriage requires mutual … without gender norm conflict. Finally, we predict that in the presence of gender norm conflict, high-skilled individuals may … with similar gender norms will face a lower chance of marrying. Even if two parties marry despite a difference in gender …

We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using … marriage market, and affected marital outcomes of individuals whose qualification attainment were unaffected.We also decompose … the difference in marriage probabilities between unqualified individuals and those with basic qualifications into causal …

find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation …