non-marital fertility. This paper posits that if one role of marriage is to insure one partner's investment in children … the family home, post-separation has remained unique to marriage.We provide a model where husbands can "ante up" the … of marriage will invest more in children and have greater labor specialization, while policy changes that eroded marriage …

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 … conclude that children conceived before first marriage increase the risk of marital disruption. Finally, the higher the parents …

We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent cohorts of West German men in …-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 …

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

We evaluate the effects of the transition from cohabitation to marriage on household domestic and market work hours … adapt to system GMM estimation the estimator presented in Semykina and Wooldridge (2005) to account for selection bias in … the presence of endogenous regressors. Our results indicate that marriage increases women's specialization in home …

: efficiently or inefficiently. Under strong, but standard, assumptions regarding marriage market equilibria, marital sorting … efficient or not. We develop a new likelihood-based metric to compare marriage market fits under the two alternative behavioral …

Australia, UK and US, we find that selection into marriage by individuals with a higher taste for home-produced goods can … two-hour increase in housework time for each partner upon marriage, with women specializing in routine, and men …

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 …

Do individuals divorce for economic reasons? Can we measure the attractiveness of new matches in the marriage market … model of the household with consumption, production and revealed preference conditions for stability on the marriage market …. We define marital instability in terms of the consumption gains to remarrying another individual in the same marriage …