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 …

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 …

groupings. Since most non-human species are not familial, something special must be behind the family. It is shown that the two … necessary features that explain the origin of the family are given by uncertain paternity and overlapping cohorts of dependent … children. With such two features built into our model, and under the assumption that individuals care only for the propagation …

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. …

wills planning to divide their estates unequally among their children. These plans for unequal division are particularly … concentrated in complex families, that is, families with stepchildren and families with genetic children with whom the parent has … had no contact (e.g., children from previous marriages). We find that in complex families past and current contact between …