The Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution addresses the financial rights and obligations of family participants … with respect to each other. But, legal regulation of families affects more than just family participants. It affects … the Principles expressly do not address these non-family relationships, the subjects the Principles do address necessarily …

gender inequality. Because parenthood is often tied to marriage, we also investigate the existence of marriage penalties in … different regions of the world. The fraction of gender inequality explained by child penalties varies systematically with … minuscule fraction of gender inequality. But as economies develop -- incomes rise and the labor market transitions from …

fertility. We highlight four factors that facilitate combining a career with a family: family policy, cooperative fathers …In this survey, we argue that the economic analysis of fertility has entered a new era. First-generation models of … fertility choice were designed to account for two empirical regularities that, in the past, held both across countries and …

marriage and with lower savings rates in the presence of diseconomies of marriage. In the context of traditional gender roles …. -- savings behavior ; marriage ; divorce ; economics of marriage ; gender roles …This paper presents an inter-temporal model of individual behavior with uncertainty about marriage and divorce and …

into three broad sections-marriage and fertility; the labor market; and special topics and policy issues. Separate and … interdisciplinary research about gender from biology and other disciplines. …

, and the Meaning of (Commuter) Marriage -- 2. Virtually Together: Space, Place, and Communication Technologies -- 3. Nobody …'s Decision: The "Choice" to Live Apart -- 4. "They Don't Have to Pick up Their Husbands' Shoes": Doing and Undoing Gender -- 5 …. Who Benefits from (Commuter) Marriage? -- 6. "But Are They Happy?" -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Methodological Appendix …