, they can affect parents' time allocation and family dynamics. This paper examines how extending the school day affects … families by focusing on marriage dissolution. We exploit the staggered adoption of a policy that extended the availability of … childcare is likely to be one of the mechanisms that relaxed restrictions to marriage dissolution. …

non-married cohabiting parents. This effect results from a reduced risk of single parenthood among women who gained from …

This article studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market … with positive assortative matching, where in equilibrium, the poorest women stay single. Couples have to decide on the …