. Domestic violence is analyzed using data on both family conflict resolution and intimate homicide rates. The results indicate a …

While a large literature is interested in the relationship between family and labor supply outcomes, little is known … gender gap in labor supply. Gender differences in beliefs about this future gap are primarily explained by gender differences … in beliefs about how future family outcomes are related to future labor supply. Methodological contributions come from an …

East and North Africa, and the rate is higher than 50 percent in some parts of the world. Consanguineous marriage generates … on human capital. The prevalence of consanguineous marriage and the resultant kinship networks can shape various … reform made women less likely to find consanguineous marriage as an acceptable practice, and that the reform reduced women …

members (e.g., children) or to promote marriage and fertility …; provides an occasion to reexamine both the American family and family economics. We begin by discussing how families have … changed in recent decades: the separation of sex, marriage, and childbearing; fewer children and smaller households …

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

We explore several problems in drawing causal inferences from cross-sectional relationships between marriage …, motherhood, and wages. We find that heterogeneity leads to biased estimates of the quot;directquot; effects of marriage and … motherhood on wages (i.e., effects net of experience and tenure); first-difference estimates reveal no direct effect of marriage …

marriage when the sex of the child is known before birth, and fertility stopping rules. We document that parents with girls are …This paper shows how parental preferences for sons versus daughters affect divorce, child custody, marriage, shotgun … likely to be married at delivery. When we turn to fertility, we find that in families with at least two children, the …

brief rationale for and an estimation of probability functions for divorce rates at specific lengths of marriage duration … marriage among the Terman subjects (Michael 1976). The Terman subjects generally exhibited the same qualitative relationships … between marital patterns and such variables as age at marriage and schooling as the California population. However, one should …

-reaching implications for gender inequality, household specialization and family structure. Using population register data on all births … due to Chinese import competition lead to a move towards family, with higher rates of fertility, parental leave, and …-earning women in their late 30s contribute strongly to the gender difference in fertility because switching to new comparable …