While a large literature is interested in the relationship between family and labor supply outcomes, little is known … in beliefs about how future family outcomes are related to future labor supply. Methodological contributions come from an … longitudinal data, can potentially help address endogeneity issues arising in the estimation of the causal effect of family on …

This paper examines the appropriate tax treatment of the family in a series of analytical models and numerical examples … analysis, the optimal tax rates on secondary workers in the family are much lower than those on primary earners. Indeed, our …

We study the role of wealth in the marriage contract by developing a model of the household where investments in public … goods can be made at the cost of future earnings. If couples cannot commit ex ante to a sufficiently equal post-divorce … allocation, specialization and public good creation will be sub-optimal. However, accumulating joint assets, which the marriage …

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 …

; 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 … replacement of what had been family functions and home production by government programs and market transactions. After discussing …

This paper investigates marriage market equilibrium under the assumption that Bargaining In Marriage (BIM) determines … allocation within marriage. Prospective spouses, when they meet in the marriage market, are assumed to foresee the outcome of BIM … marriage market is the first stage of a multi-stage game – in the simplest case, a two-stage game – that must be solved by …

Over the past thirty years changes in divorce law have significantly increased access to divorce. The different timing … of divorce law reform across states provides a useful quasi-experiment with which to examine the effects of this change … change in divorce law. Suicide rates are used as a quantifiable measure of wellbeing, albeit one that focuses on the extreme …

the relevant economic theory for this problem. Then, using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Labor Market … marital status, time until first marriage, and duration of first marriage. The results indicate that in general, drug users … are more likely to be unmarried due to a delay in the age at first marriage, and shorter marriage durations. The findings …