Does availability of common law marriage (CLM henceforth) in the U.S help explain variation in the labor force … legal protection to household producers at the margin between single status and marriage, we expect it to discourage labor …

This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and … women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college …

This paper formulates and estimates a discrete time, discrete choice dynamic labor supply model in which marriage …, fertility, and education are choice variables. The dynamics of these choices are captured by various forms of state and duration …

The Current Population Survey is used to investigate effects of Common Law Marriage (CLM) on whether young US … abolished CLM over the period examined. Analysis based on Gary Becker's marriage economics helps explain why CLM affects couple …

Fertility rates are below replacement level in most industrialised countries. There are, however, substantial cross … associated with low fertility: delay in the formation of new families, persistent gender asymmetries in practice but also partly …-) decisions on fertility are a way of dealing with these constraints and tensions. …

Household Budgets' Survey (PHBS) for years 2003-2009. Apart from studying the effects of gender on family stability, fertility …