male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings … education but the other one does not. Because of the high degree of assortative matching according to education on the marriage … one, they have the most to gain from divorcing and going back to the marriage market. This incentive becomes stronger if …

This chapter provides an account of the major family transformations that occurred in recent decades across Latin …-Paredes, 2018a; Juárez & Gayet, 2014). This combination of stability and change has had profound transformations in the family … status in which women raise their children and the family context in which children are raised. We refer to family context as …

In this paper we discuss the importance of families for understanding economic inequality. Family structure can in …

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 … shaping family life are stressed …