more children than cohabiting couples primarily because marriage provides stronger incentives for specialization in …

having children within rather than outside of marriage. We thus expect passage of MWPAs and MWEAs to reduce the likelihood …

household they live in: some agents live alone while others live with their spouses as a family. Our exercise is motivated by …

The prevalence and stability of marriage has declined in the United States as the economic lives of men and women have … converged. Family change has not been uniform, however, and the widening gaps in marital status, relationship stability, and …-Oaxaca decompositions of differences in key family outcomes across education groups show that, though individual non-cognitive traits are …

bargaining power within marriage for women most affected by war deaths. The impact of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family …How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by …, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower rates of marriage and fertility, higher nonmarital births and reduced …

We present a dynamic life-cycle model of women's labor supply, marriage, and fertility choices that explicitly … forms of health on other life dynamics, with better mental health having stronger impacts on marriage and fertility outcomes …

account of welfare and family policies, or in the expression of and actual compliance with egalitarian norms. The study of …