Custody laws governing living arrangements for children following their parents' divorce have changed dramatically … consequences of joint custody laws for families in such areas as family formation, labor force participation, suicide, domestic …

organization of the family. -- marriage ; divorce ; fertility ; welfare state ; risk sharing …We study the effect of the size of the welfare state on family outcomes in OECD member countries. Exploiting exogenous … involved in the legislative process), we show that an expansion in the welfare state increases the fertility, marriage, and …

more important form of insurance. We show that the presence of children in the household is a crucial determinant of the …We study the effectiveness of intra-household insurance among married couples when the husband loses his job due to a … gains recover only a tiny fraction of the household income loss and, in the short-term, public transfers and taxes are a …

. The presence and ages of children in the household are crucial determinants of the wife's labor supply response. The most … Security Database. We show that in our sample of relatively young couples the shock hits households at crucial stages of family … small, about -0:04. While the wives' earnings gains recover only a tiny fraction of the household income loss, public …

We show that the exposure to war-related violence increases the quantity of children temporarily, with permanent … trend in fertility as non-affected villages prior to the onset of conflict and employ a difference-in-differences estimator …. We find that women in affected villages increased their actual and desired fertility during the conflict by 22 percent …

We show that the exposure to war-related violence increases the quantity of children temporarily, with permanent … negative consequences for the quality of the current and previous cohort of children. Our empirical evidence is based on Nepal … women in villages affected by civil conflict increased their actual and desired fertility during the conflict by 22 percent …

Prior empirical research on the theoretically proposed interaction between the quantity and the quality of children … builds on exogenous variation in family size due to twin births and focuses on human capital outcomes. The typical finding …

Prior empirical research on the theoretically proposed interaction between the quantity and the quality of children … builds on exogenous variation in family size due to twin births and focuses on human capital outcomes. The typical finding …

Prior empirical research on the theoretically proposed interaction between the quantity and the quality of children … builds on exogenous variation in family size due to twin births and focuses on human capital outcomes. The typical finding …