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. …

The growing gender gap in educational attainment between men and women has raised concerns that the skill development …'s marriage and childbearing and weak support for greater male vulnerability to disadvantage in rates of high school graduation … produces a similar pattern of results. We conclude that focusing on gender differences in behavior in school may not lead to …

marriage patterns and childbirth decisions …

completed education and job training as human capital accumulation to study potential mechanisms for gender differences in the …

’s gender and the type of shocks. We find a decrease in children’s study time and an increase in time spent on household chores …, respiratory illness lowered expectations that a child would return to school and increased the probability of marriage …

labor market opportunity and marriage quality, as measured by bride price received and household bargaining power. We …