Social insurance is often linked to marriage. I model how such linkage affects the marriage market, and exploit Sweden …. Entry into marriage reflects a demand for survivors insurance up to 50 years before expected payout, especially among … insurance is linked to marriage, marital behavior is an integral component of couples’ strategies to plan for financial security …

This chapter reviews empirical evidence on the micro-level consequences of family planning programs in middle- and low …-economic outcomes (mortality, human capital, and labor force participation), and children's health and socio-economic outcomes … throughout the life cycle. Though effect sizes are heterogeneous, long-term studies imply that in practice, family planning …

grades, and have behavioral problems than are children raised in more traditional family structures. But these relationships … outcomes, rather than causal effects of family structure. Given that changes in the availability of men in the marriage market … should affect marriage decisions, we use incarceration rates for men as an instrumental variable for family structure in …

Earnings in mid-career and children are two fundamental outcomes of the life-choices of men and women. Both require …, completed fertility and mid-career earnings. We find an overall increasing inequality in career and family outcomes of men …, reflecting a rise in the family-career complementarity. For women, the family-career trade-off has eased for non …

frictionless marriage market. One of our key empirical findings is that there is a very strong preference for within-caste marriage … persistent feature of the Indian marriage market. …