regulation. We focus on two issues that should receive more attention in discussions of Mexican policy. (1) The family is under …

around family formation. …

contributed to the weakening of family ties, which in turn results in the need for additional old-age economic security. In the … suggests a model that takes into account this endogenous effect and tries to analyze the net effect of the breakdown of family …. The main result is that the transition toward the weak family does not necessarily imply an increase in the size of …

It is usual to formulate policies that react on the consequences, not the causes of family structure. In the design of … toward efficient institutions. The purposes of this paper are: a) to analyse the family trends in past decades; b) to … consider the economic externalities of the family (child rearing and human capital investment; social assistance for the …

borrowed norms and regulations belonging to Church’s legislation. The frail State – Church dualism on family law was influenced … law very clearly favoured family and children’s interests. They were all conceived to better supervise individual …’s education in a moral family where the Church would still have an influence. …