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 …

in which the utility of individual working couples , depends on the consumption of their parents and children as well as … also can take the form of bequests from parents to their surviving children. In the basic model, saving only involves …, their parents consumption, and their children's consumption, the steady state that is consistent with individual behavior is …

We study the role of wealth in the marriage contract by developing a model of the household where investments in public …-divorce allocation, specialization and public good creation will be sub-optimal. However, accumulating joint assets, which the marriage … specialization, more public goods, and a higher value of marriage. To test the model’s predictions, we use homeownership as a proxy …

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 …

family members. Drawing on theoretical models of collective decision-making, we use extremely rich data from Indonesia to … establish that child health- and education-related human capital outcomes are affected by resources of extended family members … who co-reside with the child and those who are not co-resident. Extended family members are not completely altruistic but …

;demonstration effectquot; postulates that adult children learn from a parent's example that family caregiving is appropriate behavior. The quot …Do adult children affect the care elderly parents provide each other? We develop two models in which the anticipated … behavior of adult children provides incentives for elderly parents to increase care for their disabled spouses. The quot …

changed in recent decades: the separation of sex, marriage, and childbearing; fewer children and smaller households … between parents and children. We conclude by discussing the effectiveness of policies to target benefits to certain family … members (e.g., children) or to promote marriage and fertility …

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 …

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