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

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

Survey Marriage and Fertility Supplements. … for other Western countries. Using 1995-2015 Dutch marriage registry data, we show that daughters are associated with … higher divorce risks, but only when they are 13 to 18 years old. There are no detectable gender differences before or after …

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 …

regions that were more exposed to robots, the gender-income and labor-force-participation gaps declined. We then show that US … cohabitation. While there was no change in overall fertility rate, marital fertility declined, and there was an increase in out … increased uncertainty, reduced the relative marriage-market value of men, and the willingness to commit for the long term. …

pressure on men to appear financially attractive in order to find a partner in the marriage market. These marriage market …

rate. To summarize the main findings of the paper, it finds that the premarital sex (or gender) ratio (the ratio of males …, where the bride's side has to pay substantial dowries to the groom's side at marriage, but a positive impact in the Republic … of Korea, where, as in the People's Republic of China, the groom's side has to bear a disproportionate share of marriage …

In 1933, the German government introduced the marriage loan for newlyweds, a policy aimed at increasing marriages and …

the birth of a child. Our setting enables us to examine the effect of family policies in a region with patriarchal gender … increase in fertility rates, particularly for second births among married and older women, providing suggestive evidence of an … increase in completed fertility. Second, we find an increase in overall female employment, likely due to the desire to qualify …

presence of conflicting family goals within a couple, and show that male scarcity (a decrease in the male to female sex ratio … sex ratio in World War II contributed to a lower decline in fertility and child mortality rates in postwar Japan. In … particular, the fertility rate would have fallen by an additional 12% and the child mortality rate by an additional 13% between …