children marry more easily with an easier "exit option" from marriage. Thus, more children are born in the first years of …Total fertility declined in states that introduced unilateral divorce, which makes dissolution of marriage easier. Also … it) based upon the effect of divorce laws on the probability of entering and exiting marriage. Women planning to have …

regulations are actually bad for children. I assess the long run implications for children of growing up in a unilateral divorce … increase the incidence of divorce. I also find that adults who were exposed to unilateral divorce regulations as children are … less well educated and have lower family incomes. They are also more likely themselves to be both married and separated …

documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to … the gender gap, it has not received much political or academic attention. A decomposition of the survival differential …

among their children. In contrast, intra vivos gifts are usually unequal. These findings challenge the validity of existing …

market outcomes. We find strong family similarities in work hours that run along gender lines. These similarities are … National Longitudinal Survey of Labor Market Experience. We measure the extent to which a set of unobserved parental and family … factors that drive wage rates and work hours independently of wage rates lead to similarities among family members in labor …