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 … bargaining power within marriage for women most affected by war deaths. The impact of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family …

We document the effect of unemployment insurance generosity on divorce and fertility using an identification strategy … women's layoffs; reductions in fertility associated with men's layoffs; and increases in fertility associated with women …

beyond increasing the divorce rate. They can influence female labor supply, marriage and fertility rates, child well …

consequences of joint custody laws for families in such areas as family formation, labor force participation, suicide, domestic …

We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated … with sisters obtain lower education and give birth earlier than women with brothers. Our analysis shows that the family …

We analyze the tradeoff between child quantity and quality in developing countries by estimating the effect of family … size on child education in urban Philippines. To isolate exogenous changes in family size, we exploit a policy shock: in … the effect of family size. We also exploit the fact that older mothers were less likely to become pregnant during the ban …