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 …

We propose a model of parental altruism in relation with child habit formation, where children are unaware of their … have generated. This implies that parents from richer families, ceteris paribus, tend to guard against their children …