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 …

We demonstrate that the notion of a "family constitution" (self-enforcing, renegotiation-proof family norm) requiring … adults to provide attention for elderly parents carries over from a world where sexually indifferentiated individuals … family constitutions. …