Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce … children conceived during first marriage. Our results indicate that the presence of children significantly reduces the … probability of marital disruption. In addition, the younger the children, the greater the deterrent effect. In contrast, we …

Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such …

-market opportunities on sleep patterns; the effect of having children; the consequences of the decreased division of labor within the …

Women can bear own children or adopt them. Extending economic theories of fertility, we provide a first theoretical …

, mating, and parental investment in children, we argue that marriage serves the purpose of attenuating the risk of mating … benefits women because of the public good nature of children. Able to realize Pareto improvements, marriage as an institution …

We develop a theoretical model of mating behavior and parental investment in children under asymmetry in kin …

Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such … states to inculcate sexual mores. Technology affects culture. -- Children ; church and state ; contraception ; culture …

Women can bear own children or adopt them. Extending economic theories of fertility, we provide a first theoretical …

children and spousal specialization in home production of public goods and child care. We then study how child care provision …

Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such …