' working hours is amplified through the influence of family peers. Using Norwegian administrative data we study the long …-run influence of the family network on mothers' labour decisions up to seven years post birth. For identification, we exploit … partially overlapping peer groups and assume that a mother interacts with her neighbours and family but not with her family …

Family patterns in Western countries have substantially changed across the 1940 to 1990 birth cohorts. Adults born more … one partnership. These changes have led to an increasing diversity in family life courses. In this paper, we present a … microsimulation model of family life trajectories, which models the changing family patterns taking into account the complex …

Models that allow for non-cooperative as well as cooperative behavior of families are estimated on data from Norway in …