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 eroding economic position of men without a four-year college degree and their declining marriage rates. Fourth, the …The share of children living in a two-parent family has declined sharply in the past 40 years, driven by a decline in …

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 …

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 …

marriage terminations for women, death of self a much larger fraction for men, reflecting differences in life expectancy and … same partner declines and the proportion married to a new partner increases, implying some reduction in marriage stability … the end of a marriage, most prominently among males: widowhood (death of a partner) accounts for a much larger fraction of …

marriages. Men and women benefit equally. The paper also studies the effects of bereavement, of having dependent children, and …

We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent cohorts of West German men in …-invariant unobservables that affect both family and work outcomes. Child gender also matters - a first son increases fathers' work hours by … is observed to be coresiding with a son or a daughter. Men are more likely to remain in the same household with a male …

children reared in two-parent families. Evidence from the United States and Sweden indicates that living in a non-intact family … is correlated with lower educational attainment. In this paper we compare the relationships between family structure and … United States and Sweden is interesting because both family structure and public policy environments in the two countries …