divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we … household. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer …

The extensive research on the impact of educational attainment on fertility behavior has been expanded by a new …

and fertility timing. We find that delaying parenthood by one additional year during the career implies a wage premium of …

This paper investigates the effect of education on fertility under inflexible labor market conditions. We exploit … complementary data sets, we examine different fertility outcomes over the life cycle. In contrast to evidence for other developed … countries, we find that increased education causally reduces completed fertility. This negative effect operates through a …

developmental functioning of children at younger ages (2-4 years) than ever previously examined. Data from the German Socio … the correlations exist even for those preschool children who spend no time in day care, which implies that the correlation …

communicate on the timing of their work.The main findings are that couples with children create less overlap in their work times … and this effectis more pronounced the younger the children. We find evidence for a togetherness preference of spouses …

of children in the household is the main cause why some partners synchronize their work times less than other partners …