households. -- instrumental partner-violence ; non-cooperative family decision-making ; welfare policy …

The Current Population Survey is used to investigate effects of Common Law Marriage (CLM) on whether young US … CLM over the period examined. Analysis based on Gary Becker's marriage economics helps explain why CLM affects couple … women without college. CLM effects on likelihood of marriage and cohabitation and likelihood of being divorced if ever …

division of labor within a household can render a marriage more durable. On the other hand, spouses that are dissimilar in … toward certain activities to the marriage that reflects compatible preferences for joint consumption of household public …

respect to their income than singles. This is a novel result that runs against the intuition that family ties weaken self …

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 …) relative to men who remain with male children. -- child gender ; fatherhood ; labor supply ; family …

I develop an equilibrium, two-sided search model of marriage with endogenous population growth to study the interaction … between fertility, the age structure of the population and the age at first marriage of men and women. Within a simple two …-period overlapping generation model I show that, given an increase of the desired number of children, age at marriage is affected through …

educational homogamy in the marriage market and cross-productivity effects in the household allow Filipino women to reap … schooling for women is approximately 20 percent in both labor and marriage markets. In comparison, men experience a 12 percent …

male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings … education but the other one does not. Because of the high degree of assortative matching according to education on the marriage … one, they have the most to gain from divorcing and going back to the marriage market. This incentive becomes stronger if …

Many migrants have non-labour motives to migrate and they differ substantially in their migration behaviour. Family … return decision. Using administrative panel data on the entire population of recent family immigrants to The Netherlands, we … for correlated unobserved heterogeneity across the migration and the divorce processes. The family migrants are divided …