commodities to investment in children. For some, these changes meant that marriage was no longer worth the costs of limited … relationships. The college educated typically cohabit before marriage, but they marry before conceiving children and their marriages …Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women …

commodities to investment in children. For some, these changes meant that marriage was no longer worth the costs of limited … relationships. The college educated typically cohabit before marriage, but they marry before conceiving children and their marriages …Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women …

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

-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 …

The prevalence and stability of marriage has declined in the United States as the economic lives of men and women have … converged. Family change has not been uniform, however, and the widening gaps in marital status, relationship stability, and …-Oaxaca decompositions of differences in key family outcomes across education groups show that, though individual non-cognitive traits are …

The prevalence and stability of marriage has declined in the United States as the economic lives of men and women have … converged. Family change has not been uniform, however, and the widening gaps in marital status, relationship stability, and …-Oaxaca decompositions of differences in key family outcomes across education groups show that, though individual non-cognitive traits are …

In this paper, we examine the determinants of decision-making power by children and young adolescents. Moving beyond … previous economic models that treat children as goods consumed by adults rather than agents, we develop a noncooperative model …

This paper aims to verify results of the innovative study on gender identity for the USA by Bertrand et al. (2015) for … violate traditional gender identity norms. Using data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study we also find that the … exceeds the husband's income. The results of the fixed effects regression confirm that gender identity has an impact on the …

different gender identity prescriptions of family breadwinning. We use data for three periods between 1984 and 2016 from the … formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped … since reunification, converging to the more gender-egalitarian East Germany. Our work emphasizes the view that political and …

gender has significant effects on the labor supply of both mothers and father, and these effects are opposite at the two ends … gender effects on the relative bargaining power of the mother and father. No evidence of improved maternal bargaining power … suggest gender differences in child production functions. …