gender inequality. Because parenthood is often tied to marriage, we also investigate the existence of marriage penalties in … female employment. In general, women experience both marriage and child penalties, but their relative importance depends on … economic development. The development process is associated with a substitution from marriage penalties to child penalties …

responses among higher-income individuals. Resources generate persistent increases in marriage for single men and women but do … marriage by socioeconomic status and inform theories of household formation and the family …

We estimate the effects of large, positive wealth shocks on marriage and fertility in a sample of Swedish lottery … players. For male winners, wealth increases marriage formation and reduces divorce risk, suggesting wealth increases men …

higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …

deadweight loss as well as reapportioning surplus. Kearney (2023) argues that declining marriage means American children grow up … in less-resourced families. I suggest this decline may reflect shortfalls in "soft" skills needed to make marriage …

beliefs and outcomes for females but not for males. Marriage is a mechanism that is relevant for understanding differences in …

marriage among parents without a four-year college degree. This paper presents a number of facts about these trends, drawing on … divorce. Third, the widening college gap in children's family structure corresponds to a widening college gap in marriage … the eroding economic position of men without a four-year college degree and their declining marriage rates. Fourth, the …

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 … children marry more easily with an easier "exit option" from marriage. Thus, more children are born in the first years of …

We examine the association between nonmarital childbearing and the subsequent likelihood of first marriage and document … expectations of future marriage. Rather, the direction of causation is just the reverse: Nonmarital childbearing tends to be an … first marriage. Further, the upward trend in the proportion of childbearing that occurs outside of marriage may account for …