Divorce negatively impacts children´s welfare as a consequence of the reduction in monetary and time contributions of the non-custodial parent. In our framework parents constitute a bilateral exchange economy where the mother is endowed with control over visitations and the father has control...

Recent research reveals that divorce negatively impacts children's welfare as a consequence of the reduction in monetary and time contributions of the non-custodial parent. After divorce, the variables that link the absent parent to the child are visitations, child support transfers, and direct...

Recent empirical evidence show considerable variation in the degree of labor market participation of women during childbearing across different countries. In order to investigate this issue, we analyze intertemporal employment patterns and its interaction with fertility, comparing countries...