significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of positive assortative mating; (v) more children … fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a …

's employment during her children's childhood has an asymmetric effect on the educational achievement of her own sons and daughters … production for boys is more adversely affected by a decrease in the mother's time input as a result of increasing employment …

maternal employment has a positive effect on children's academic performance in all specifications, particularly when women … contexts, and which finds no or a small negative effect of maternal employment on children's cognitive development and academic …Using a Danish data set that follows 135,000 Danish children from birth through 9th grade, we examine the effect of …

particular, an aversion to the wife earning more than the husband - impacts marriage formation, the wife's labor force … participation, the wife's income conditional on working, marriage satisfaction, likelihood of divorce, and the division of home … that a couple is less willing to match if her income exceeds his. Within marriage markets, when a randomly chosen woman …

One-third of children in the United States are born to unmarried parents. A substantial number of black and Hispanic … children live with a never-married mother. Children of never-married mothers are more likely to drop out of high school, repeat … grades, and have behavioral problems than are children raised in more traditional family structures. But these relationships …

The last 60 years have seen the emergence of a dramatic socioeconomic gradient in marriage, divorce, cohabitation, and … graduates, less-educated women are more likely to enter into cohabiting partnerships early and bear children while cohabiting …, are less likely to transition quickly into marriage, and have much higher divorce rates. There are two broad sets of …

impacts of war exposure on education. War exposed men marry later and have fewer children. War exposure of mothers (but not …

Fathers' multiple-partner fertility (MPF) is associated with substantially worse educational outcomes for children. We … focus on children in fathers' “second families” when the second families are nuclear families – households consisting of a … man, a woman, their joint children, and no other children. We analyze outcomes for almost 75,000 Norwegian children all of …

In this paper, we investigate the effect of federal welfare reform on the employment, hours of work and marriage rates … employment and attachment to the labor market. TANF appears to have had a larger effect on the least educated native-born women … effect on native- and foreign-born citizens' marriage decisions. TANF was associated with a decrease in the marriage rates of …