Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce … children conceived during first marriage. Our results indicate that the presence of children significantly reduces the … probability of marital disruption. In addition, the younger the children, the greater the deterrent effect. In contrast, we …

and public spheres of work in post-reform rural, minority-concentrated China. We focus on the role that children play in … local economic conditions. Children generally decrease women's willingness to work away from/outside the home and increase … men's willingness to do so. When we focus specifically on the effects of pre-school children, our results suggest it is …

began, but a lack of resources and policies to protect poor families hampered children’s access to education, especially for … non-compulsory school grades. Different phenomena associated with transition also negatively affected children’s education … focus on education and for monitoring of the schooling progress of children in special family circumstances. …