consequences of joint custody laws for families in such areas as family formation, labor force participation, suicide, domestic …

Low fertility rates are a cause of social concern in many developed countries, with growing youth unemployment often … prospects actually discourages family formation or for how long the effect might persist. In addition, recessions can affect the … divorce rate. Therefore, understanding the relationship between labor market conditions and family formation can provide …

In addition to regular marriage, Australia, Brazil, and 11 US states recognize common law (or de facto) marriage, which … allows one or both cohabiting partners to claim, under certain conditions, that an informal union is a marriage. France and … some other countries also have several types of marriage and civil union contracts. The policy issue is whether to abolish …

Individuals typically traverse several life phases before forming a family. We analyze whether changing the duration of … one of these phases, the education phase, affects the timing of marriage and childbearing. For this purpose, we exploit … affects the timing of marriage for individuals in all secondary school tracks and shifts forward the birth of the first child …

family and work, and the education distribution of married couples have substantially changed. By contrast, the gender wage …

was fervidly debated, it has become a widely accepted family policy measure. Its impact on parental labor supply, the … division oflabor between parents, fertility, and indicators that reflect the well-being of parents and children have been … effects on the division of labor within the family are inconclusive. Some evidence suggests that the parental leave benefit …

was fervidly debated, it has become a widely accepted family policy measure. Its impact on parental labor supply, the … division oflabor between parents, fertility, and indicators that reflect the well-being of parents and children have been … effects on the division of labor within the family are inconclusive. Some evidence suggests that the parental leave benefit …

the analysis on two datasets: the American Community Survey and the Fertility Supplement of the Current Population Survey …Many studies have documented a negative association between macroeconomic indicators and fertility in times of economic …