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 …

Economists have devoted a tremendous amount of attention to understanding the role of parents in driving within-family … children equally. In this paper we provide a potential way to reconcile these mixed findings using twins data from China and … first demonstrate that parents tend to invest similar amount of resources in the children during their childhood. By …

the birth of a child. Our setting enables us to examine the effect of family policies in a region with patriarchal gender … their young children longer, the conflict between women’s dual roles as full-time worker and full-time mother is reduced … norms with respect to housework, where women were the main providers of care within the household, but egalitarian gender …

In this paper we discuss the importance of families for understanding economic inequality. Family structure can in … children can amplify existing inequalities across generations. Third, inequality can exist even within families, and the …

While divorce laws are known to influence family behavior, empirical evidence of their effects on children remains scarce … family (in)stability on children's long-term human capital outcomes. The evaluation suggests that exposure to more liberal … variation and population-wide register data of 1.17 million Swedish children born 1952-1964 to evaluate the implications of …

gender inequality. Because parenthood is often tied to marriage, we also investigate the existence of marriage penalties in … different regions of the world. The fraction of gender inequality explained by child penalties varies systematically with … minuscule fraction of gender inequality. But as economies develop -- incomes rise and the labor market transitions from …

rights after separation. We use this improvement in women's bargaining power in marriage for a regression discontinuity …

rights after separation. We use this improvement in women's bargaining power in marriage for a regression discontinuity …