with paid work. Descriptive evidence about the paid and unpaid work of couples and parents is presented, largely secondary …

completed schooling and risk of a nonmarital birth. Using a 27-year span of panel (PSID) data for U.S. children, we find that …: (a) change is stressful, (b) timing during childhood is relevant, (c) adults other than parents are important, and (d …

countries. A simple model is set out in which couples are motivated to have children for old age security purposes. The … decisions of a couple regarding fertility and allocation of resources for the healthcare of their children are made within a … in female autonomy within a household may increase the disadvantage suffered by female children in that household with …

This paper tests whether interhousehold transfers from children to parents in developing countries are motivated by … altruism or intended to be repayments of implicit parental loans taken up by children for human capital investment. For the …-secondary education, we find evidence that money transfers to the parents are mixture of altruistic transfers and repayments. Copyright …

This paper develops a two sided matching model of premarital cohabitation and marriage in which premarital cohabitation … classes formed by marital unions and cohabiting unions. This implies that some cohabiting unions progress to marriage while …

individuals in the marriage market, we use a search theoretic model of marriage formation and dissolution to examine the effect of … costs not only affect the probability of divorce but also the probability of marriage. Interestingly, to what extent divorce … costs affect the marital status distribution depends on the information regarding the quality of the potential marriage that …

less influence on the parents' time with their children than a change in the father's working hours. This would imply that … also find that parents prefer joint activities with their children, and that out-of-home child care is not chosen as a …The trade-off between parents' time with their own kids and market work, and its dependence on out-of-home day care is …