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 …

This paper studies the effects of different income transfers on individual welfare, in both marriage and divorce … situations, and on family decisions. We assume three generations within the family. We develop a sequential game that, in a first … losses derived from the marriage. We have also found that the donor of an intergenerational transfer can behave in a …

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 …

children. Cohabitation also reduces women's propensity to work evenings and weekends, and to hold a second job. The effects are … temporary, and disappear if couples dissolve. I investigate household specialization and gender norms as potential mechanisms … gender norms predicts the magnitude of the penalty. My analysis relies on a unique identification of cohabiting but otherwise …

We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using … marriage market, and affected marital outcomes of individuals whose qualification attainment were unaffected. We also decompose … the difference in marriage probabilities between unqualified individuals and those with basic qualifications into causal …