recent cohort of women in China. Family characteristics such as number of siblings, sibling gender composition, and parents …’ characteristics may play an important role in children’s life as the presence of a sibling can affect parents’ treatment of the …In this paper, we examine the impact of a sibling gender on educational attainment, earnings, family formation for a …

The Social Security program, like the federal income tax system, is not marriage neutral. In the income tax literature … couple, in effect, faces a marriage penalty (marriage subsidy). Similarly, provisions in Social Security lead to marriage … subsidies or penalties. In this paper, we examine marriage penalties associated with Social Security's child-in-care benefits …

The practice of early marriage for women is prevalent in developing countries around the world today, and is believed … model of the marriage market to explain how the practice may be sustained in the absence of any intrinsic preference for … young brides. We assume there is a desirable female attribute, relevant for the gains from marriage, that is only noisily …

children of married parents. We propose that the gains to marriage from a child's perspective depend on a mother's own level of …A large literature exists on the impact of family structure on children's outcomes, typically focusing on average … school completion or avoiding poverty at age 25, the “marriage premium for children” is highest for children of mothers with …

Using microdata from Current Population Survey Fertility supplements 1990-2010 we examine whether Common Law Marriage …