the birth of a child. Our setting enables us to examine the effect of family policies in a region with patriarchal gender …, which may reduce conflicts within the marriage …

violence. Besides, factors related to marriage setting have a significant role in the effect of women’s superior status on …

contraceptives and women's empowerment affected individuals' preferences for dating, marriage and fertility. In this paper, we … investigate whether the HIV/AIDS epidemic from the 1980s onward, a non-monetary shock, affected people's preferences for marriage … data, we estimate the marriage gain in two different time spans, 1984 to 1991 and 1999 to 2010, respectively before and …

, they can affect parents' time allocation and family dynamics. This paper examines how extending the school day affects … families by focusing on marriage dissolution. We exploit the staggered adoption of a policy that extended the availability of … childcare is likely to be one of the mechanisms that relaxed restrictions to marriage dissolution. …

divorce. I model the marital decisions of couples as a sequential game, in which the gain to marriage increases with household … bargaining power within marriage. This in turn affects the equilibrium marital outcomes. I use the variation in the timing of the … passage of the homemaking provision to identify its effect on marriage. I find that the provision substantially increases …

increase in the likelihood of being divorced of 11.7 percent at ten years of marriage. For people between the ages of 35 and 55 …

divorce. Third, the widening college gap in children's family structure corresponds to a widening college gap in marriage …The share of children living in a two-parent family has declined sharply in the past 40 years, driven by a decline in … marriage among parents without a four-year college degree. This paper presents a number of facts about these trends, drawing on …

nest is negatively associated with older mothers' marriage probability. There is scope for better targeting of both family … and on mothers' labour market outcomes. Much less is known about older mothers' employment and marriage patterns when the …

We investigate the impact of male-female conflict over gender norms on marital outcomes. As marriage requires mutual … norms, their marriage may be more vulnerable to external shocks, making divorce more likely relative to their counterparts … options. Estimates from an analysis of U.S. marriage markets differentiated by birth cohort, state, race, and skill level …

-ethnicity marriage of the household head has adverse implications for family income. The negative effect is robust to controlling for … developing countries by investigating the motivation for intra-ethnicity marriage in rural Sub-Saharan Africa. Specifically, the … technology. Furthermore, the framework suggests that the probability of marriage within the same ethnic group is positively …