supply, marriage and fertility are all endogenous. Assuming preferences that are common across ethnic groups and fixed over … gender education gap, we formulate and estimate a model of individual and family decision-making where education, labor … exogenous factors: family background, labor market and marriage market constraints. Changes in parental background are a key …

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 …

Survey Marriage and Fertility Supplements. … for other Western countries. Using 1995-2015 Dutch marriage registry data, we show that daughters are associated with …

more home production. As a result, the cost of raising children increases and fertility declines. Assuming a loss of … utility from children in the case of divorce, lower fertility increases the probability of divorce. Using Spanish data and RDD … introduced in 2007 resulted in a reduction in fertility by up to 60%, an increase in the probability to divorce by 37%, and an …

relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior. …. While there was no change in the overall fertility rate, marital fertility declined, and there was an increase in nonmarital …

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. …

attractive as potential partners. The positive effects on female fertility may be attributed to education improving the …In response to the wide-ranging consequences of falling fertility rates, governments across high-income countries are … evidence on how education shapes family choices across the life cycle. We study the effect of educational attainment on family …

attractive as potential partners. The positive effects on female fertility may be attributed to education improving the …In response to the wide-ranging consequences of falling fertility rates, governments across high-income countries are … evidence on how education shapes family choices across the life cycle. We study the effect of educational attainment on family …

education and marriage. Overall conflict intensity had a small, positive effect on female educational attainment, whereas … intensity and Maoist abductions during school age both increased the probability of early female marriage, but exposure to … conflict during marriageable age does not appear to have affected women’s longterm marriage probability. …

We use elementary game-theoretical concepts to compare domestic equilibria with and without marriage. In particular, we … examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the … decision to marry, and on the choice of game conditional on marriage. We find that, in the absence of social stigma or legal …