divorce. Third, the widening college gap in children's family structure corresponds to a widening college gap in marriage …The share of children living in a two-parent family has declined sharply in the past 40 years, driven by a decline in … marriage among parents without a four-year college degree. This paper presents a number of facts about these trends, drawing on …

This paper analyzes cohort marriage patterns in the United States in order to determine whether declining rates of … first marriage are due to changes in the timing of marriage, the incidence of marriage, or both. Parametric models, which … are well-suited to the analysis of censored or truncated data, are fit separately to information on age at first marriage …

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 …

incorporating uncertaintyabout the outcomes of marital decisions into a framework of utilitymaximization and the marriage market …

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 …

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 …

be sub-optimal. However, investing in joint assets, which the marriage contract specifies are to be divided in the case … higher value of marriage. Empirically, we show that quasi-exogenous variation in access to collateralization leads to more … specialization, and that wealth has become a more important determinant of marriage in response to policies that have made marriage …