The paper estimates how parents adjust bride-prices and land divisions to compensate their sons for differences in … their schooling investments in rural China. The main estimate implies that when a son receives one yuan less in schooling …

We use elementary game-theoretical concepts to compare domestic equilibria with and without marriage. In particular, we … examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the … decision to marry, and on the choice of game conditional on marriage. We find that, in the absence of social stigma or legal …

of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different … data suggest that the introduction of joint custody led to a long-run increase in marriage rates. There is no convincing … dampened the persistent downturn in marriage. Our empirical evidence is fully consistent with the supposition that these …

of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different … data suggest that the introduction of joint custody led to a long-run increase in marriage rates. There is no convincing … dampened the persistent downturn in marriage. Our empirical evidence is fully consistent with the supposition that these …

are evolving to encourage both parents to maintain contact with their children following parental separation … the distance between non-residential parents and their children to proxy for contact, and measuring educational … suggest that policy efforts to keep separated parents geographically closer together for the sake of the children may, in fact …

-market opportunities on sleep patterns; the effect of having children; the consequences of the decreased division of labor within the …

Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two … assignment of property rights over total goods and assets acquired within marriage, (iii) enforceability of bride-price contracts … children equally between them, while the predominant pattern in developing countries is for the father to specialize in market …

children can amplify existing inequalities across generations. Third, inequality can exist even within families, and the …

, mating, and parental investment in children, we argue that marriage serves the purpose of attenuating the risk of mating … benefits women because of the public good nature of children. Able to realize Pareto improvements, marriage as an institution …This paper provides a first microeconomic foundation for the institution of marriage. Based on a model of reproduction …

male earnings and the incomes of parents with young children. The empirical results are broadly consistent with theories …Sex ratios, i.e., relative numbers of men and women, can affect marriage prospects, labor force participation, and … experiment to study the effect of sex ratios on the children and grandchildren of immigrants. The flow of immigrants affected the …