In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities …. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of … human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the gene pool. A key consequence of the trade-off faced by women is that …

We analyse the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non …-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common … unobserved determinants of family structure and educational performance. But once endogeneity is accounted for, whether by using …

, personal attributes and marriage variables) was employed to test for the determinants of this decision. It was found that the …

Pooling microdata from five Australian censuses, I explore the relationship between child gender and divorce. By … contrast with the United States, I find no evidence that the gender of the first child has a significant impact on the decision … to marry or divorce. However, among two-child families, parents with two children of the same sex are 1.7 percentage …

of family limitation strategies in Ireland a century ago. Regression analysis of the data shows evidence of `spacing' in …

The Paper investigates the relationship of work and family life in Britain. Using hazard regression techniques we …, there are strong links between female employment, having children and union formation. By undertaking a detailed micro …

argue that this pattern is best explained by gender identity norms, which induce an aversion to a situation where the wife … earns more than her husband. We present evidence that this aversion also impacts marriage formation, the wife's labor force … participation, the wife's income conditional on working, marriage satisfaction, likelihood of divorce, and the division of home …