We evaluate the effects of the transition from cohabitation to marriage on household domestic and market work hours … adapt to system GMM estimation the estimator presented in Semykina and Wooldridge (2005) to account for selection bias in … the presence of endogenous regressors. Our results indicate that marriage increases women's specialization in home …

small-scale survey data to examine sorting among parents of school-age children in Naples. We show that homogamy is … relates to various "outcomes" of the post-matching relationship. Children of parents with a high human capital endowment …

We evaluate the effects of the transition from cohabitation to marriage on household domestic and market work hours … adapt the estimator introduced by Semykina and Wooldridge (2005) to system GMM estimation to account for selection bias in … the presence of endogenous regressors. Our results indicate that marriage increases women's specialization in home …

entirely upon adults’ interests in state marriage recognition. To the extent children are mentioned, it is for the purpose of … speculating that children living within same-sex marriage households might indirectly benefit from recognition of adults’ rights … same-sex marriage have marginalized, or “reconceived,” the role of children in marriage, in several important ways, all to …

non-marital fertility. This paper posits that if one role of marriage is to insure one partner's investment in children … the family home, post-separation has remained unique to marriage. We provide a model where husbands can "ante up" the … of marriage will invest more in children and have greater labor specialization, while policy changes that eroded marriage …

children reared in two-parent families. Evidence from the United States and Sweden indicates that living in a non-intact family …It is well known that children reared in non-intact families on average have less favorable educational outcomes than … is correlated with lower educational attainment. In this paper we compare the relationships between family structure and …

, 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 … partners and children are a household public good, there is a conflict between individually optimal and efficient, i.e. surplus …