In this paper we study the importance of marriage for interstate risk sharing. We find that US states in which married … more aggregated state-level. Quantitatively, the impact of marriage on interstate risk sharing varies over divorce regimes. …

Recent empirical work questions the negative relationship between family size and children’s attainments proposed by … theoretical work and supported by a large empirical literature. We use twin births as an exogenous source of variation in family … negative impact of family size on grades in compulsory and secondary school. …

, without the rise in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be considerably higher. Immigration and secularization, and the …

of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different … data suggest that the introduction of joint custody led to a long-run increase in marriage rates. There is no convincing … dampened the persistent downturn in marriage. Our empirical evidence is fully consistent with the supposition that these …

contributions from demographic subgroups to these aggregate level differences. We document that women are typically the largest … measures of taxation, driven by men, and a positive correlation between hours worked and divorce rates, driven by women …. Motivated by these observations, we develop a life-cycle model with heterogeneous agents, marriage and divorce and use it to …

educational homogamy in the marriage market and cross-productivity effects in the household allow Filipino women to reap … schooling for women is approximately 20 percent in both labor and marriage markets. In comparison, men experience a 12 percent …Using data from the Bicol region of the Phillipines, we examine why women are more educated than men in a rural …