-selection behavior within marriages. China's 2001 divorce reform liberalized divorce in favor of women and secured women's property …

While divorce laws are known to influence family behavior, empirical evidence of their effects on children remains scarce …, I find that families with greater exposure to this reform element are 18.8%less likely to divorce. The exposed children …. The findings highlight a trade-off between parental freedom of choice related to divorce and externalities on children …

utility from children in the case of divorce, lower fertility increases the probability of divorce. Using Spanish data and RDD … more home production. As a result, the cost of raising children increases and fertility declines. Assuming a loss of … introduced in 2007 resulted in a reduction in fertility by up to 60%, an increase in the probability to divorce by 37%, and an …

fertility on parental investments and on women's labour supply that use twin births to instrument fertility will tend to be …

Twin births are often used to instrument fertility to address (negative) selection of women into fertility. However …, twin-IV estimates will tend to be upward biased. This is pertinent given the emerging consensus that fertility has limited … impacts on women's labour supply, or on investments in children. Using data for developing countries and the United States, we …

instrument fertility will under-estimate impacts of fertility on parental investments and women's labour supply. This is …

implies that estimates of impacts of fertility on parental investments and on women's labour supply that use twin births to … instrument fertility will tend to be downward biased. This is pertinent given the emerging consensus that these relationships are …

Custody laws governing living arrangements for children following their parents’ divorce have changed dramatically …

utility from children in the case of divorce, lower fertility increases the probability of divorce. Using Spanish data and RDD … more home production. As a result, the cost of raising children increases and fertility declines. Assuming a loss of …

Custody laws governing living arrangements for children following their parents’ divorce have changed dramatically …