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 …

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 …

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 …

A large literature exists on the impact of family structure on children's outcomes, typically focusing on average … children of married parents. We propose that the gains to marriage from a child's perspective depend on a mother's own level of … school completion or avoiding poverty at age 25, the “marriage premium for children” is highest for children of mothers with …

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

This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and … women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap …. College educated women marry later, have fewer children, are less likely to view marriage as "financial security", are happier …

We document key facts about marriage and divorce, comparing trends through the past 150 years and outcomes across … demographic groups and countries. While divorce rates have risen over the past 150 years, they have been falling for the past … the life cycle has changed, reflecting rising age at first marriage, rising divorce followed by high remarriage rates, and …

Total fertility declined in states that introduced unilateral divorce, which makes dissolution of marriage easier. Also … the ratio of out-of-wedlock fertility over total declined. We suggest an explanation (and provide supportive evidence for … it) based upon the effect of divorce laws on the probability of entering and exiting marriage. Women planning to have …