explain the difference in fertility between these two groups using a switching regression analysis, which enables us to … more children than cohabiting couples primarily because marriage provides stronger incentives for specialization in …

monthly self-employment earnings can be traced back to women working fewer hours than men. In contrast variables like family … that self-employed women do not earn less because they are seeking work-family balance rather than profits. Differences in …

Four decades ago, Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan made the argument that the black family "was not strong … examining whether racial differences in family business backgrounds can explain why black-owned businesses lag substantially … that black business owners have a relatively disadvantaged family business background compared with white business owners …

We hypothesize that individuals with a larger social-family network are more likely to choose self-employment. We test … this hypothesis using data on temporary rural-urban migrants in China. The size of a migrant's social-family network is … faces two challenges. First, there is an endogeneity problem in that a migrant may want to develop and maintain a large …

sample of British women born in 1970, we estimate an independent competing risks hazard model of fertility and cohabitation …This paper investigates the effect of earnings and employment opportunities on pre-marital fertility. Using data from a … decisions. Our results show that individual earnings opportunities are negatively related to pre-marital fertility but do not …

find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation … initiated by women, and importantly, by women who are unhappier than their husband. Hence, happiness gaps seem to matter to …

related to schooling, pre-transition family income, receipt of property in restitution, precommunist family business …

variable (IV) estimation. We show that tests for treatment effects, selection bias, and treatment effect heterogeneity are … causal effect of family size on children's education. Following common practice, a linear IV estimator has been used …, assuming constant marginal effects of additional children across family sizes. We find that the conclusion of no effect of …

causes of intergenerational links in business ownership and the related issue of how having a family business background …-employed family member prior to starting their business. Conditional on having a self-employed family member, less than 50 percent of … small business owners worked in that family member's business suggesting that it is unlikely that intergenerational links in …

We use elementary game-theoretical concepts to compare domestic equilibria with and without marriage. In particular, we … examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the … decision to marry, and on the choice of game conditional on marriage. We find that, in the absence of social stigma or legal …