the separate effects of equal opportunities for women in the labor market and improved contraception on female education … role in explaining the observed rise in female education and employment since the 1960s. But without equal opportunities …

Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce …, for the United States, to investigate the relation between fertility and marriage instability. In our model of marriage … children conceived during first marriage. Our results indicate that the presence of children significantly reduces the …

Does availability of common law marriage (CLM henceforth) in the U.S help explain variation in the labor force … legal protection to household producers at the margin between single status and marriage, we expect it to discourage labor … identified as most likely to be affected by CLM availability - the youngest white men w/o college education - we find positive …