Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two …-stage game-theoretical model. The paper examines the effects of (i) family law (cost of obtaining a divorce, alimony … children equally between them, while the predominant pattern in developing countries is for the father to specialize in market …

examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the …

among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …, how many children to have and subsequently whether to stay together or separate. We make precise the idea that cooperation … in a household can be supported by self interest. Since the costs of raising children are unequally distributed between …

of children, because it may lend credibility to the prospective main earner's promise to compensate the main childcarer … when the children will no longer be economically dependent on them. In a community-property jurisdiction, marriage will … induce domestic cooperation, and enhance efficiency in the production of children, because it rules out strategic behaviour …

children more or less equally between them. The other is that the sign of the cross-country correlation between fertility and …We derive the behavioural implications of legislation on the subject of marriage, divorce, de-facto unions, domestic …

among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …, how many children to have and subsequently whether to stay together or separate. We make precise the idea that cooperation … in a household can be supported by self interest. Since the costs of raising children are unequally distributed between …

of children, because it may lend credibility to the prospective main earner's promise to compensate the main childcarer … when the children will no longer be economically dependent on them. In a community-property jurisdiction, marriage will … induce domestic cooperation, and enhance efficiency in the production of children, because it rules out strategic behaviour …

examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the …

divorce has persistent, and mostly negative, effects on children that differ significantly between boys and girls. Treated …Numerous papers report a negative association between parental divorce and child outcomes. To provide evidence whether … divorce. This results holds also conditioning on the overall share of female co-workers in a firm.We find that parental …

In theory, unilateral divorce laws alter the private incentive to invest in human capital by permitting either spouse … less likely to attain a bachelor's degree in states with unilateral divorce laws--especially individuals who were exposed … to the laws when making educational choices and who live in states requiring an even split of assets upon divorce …