Families and Child Well-Being Study (FFCWS) this paper examines trajectories of mothers’ mental and physical health …Existing research shows that marriage and marital stability are positively associated with health and well-being. Thus …, specifically focusing on transitions into and out of relationships with the child’s biological father (n = 2,649). Mothers who …

We present a dynamic life-cycle model of women's labor supply, marriage, and fertility choices that explicitly … forms of health on other life dynamics, with better mental health having stronger impacts on marriage and fertility outcomes …

We present a dynamic life-cycle model of women's labor supply, marriage, and fertility choices that explicitly … forms of health on other life dynamics, with better mental health having stronger impacts on marriage and fertility outcomes …

assess to what extent marriage decisions and pregnancies (rather than live births), which tend to occur around the birth of … drawn from SHARE, we show that although marriage has a negative effect on women's employment (3.3%), its magnitude is much … marriage or pregnancy, is responsible for women exiting the labor force upon motherhood. …

having children within rather than outside of marriage. We thus expect passage of MWPAs and MWEAs to reduce the likelihood … that single women become mothers of young children. We use probit regression to analyze individual data from the U …

the reform are consistent with hypotheses related to the improved financial situation of new mothers after the reform and …

compare the educational attainment of the children of mothers who were required to leave employment on marriage because of the … Marriage Bar to the educational attainment of the children of mothers who were not required to do so. It is found that the … children of mothers affected by the Marriage Bar were about seven percentage points more likely to complete university …