We examine the effect of joint custody on marriage, divorce, fertility and female employment in Austria using … employment rates, significantly increases marriage and marital birth rates, and leads to a substantial increase in the total … marriage specific capital. -- divorce ; fertility ; bargaining ; intrahousehold allocations ; Austria …

We use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and the British Household Panel Survey to estimate the extent of … capital, which are larger in Germany than Britain. -- intergenerational links ; marriage market ; assortative mating …

We use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and the British Household Panel Survey to estimate the extent of …

rights. Because of the presence of transaction costs in marriage, altruistic parents cannot contract upon the investments …

incompleteness in the marriage market and the assumption that the marginal gain to marrying someone rich is greatest for someone poor …

incompleteness in the marriage market and the assumption that the marginal gain to marrying someone rich is greatest for someone poor …

, employment, and timing of first births after World War II. We find that the diffusion of the pill might have played an important … role in explaining the observed rise in female education and employment since the 1960s. But without equal opportunities …

-transferable utility case to the collective household case with bargaining. The approach is powerful for it identifies a simple algorithm …