This chapter reviews empirical evidence on the micro-level consequences of family planning programs in middle- and low …-economic outcomes (mortality, human capital, and labor force participation), and children's health and socio-economic outcomes … throughout the life cycle. Though effect sizes are heterogeneous, long-term studies imply that in practice, family planning …

grades, and have behavioral problems than are children raised in more traditional family structures. But these relationships … outcomes, rather than causal effects of family structure. Given that changes in the availability of men in the marriage market … should affect marriage decisions, we use incarceration rates for men as an instrumental variable for family structure in …

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. …

effects of marriage penalties. In addition, it offers a unique perspective on 19th century marriage markets, which are little … an increase in the median time to remarriage of 3.5 years. Among older women and women with children, this effect is … substantially greater. This indicates that women were willing to substitute away from marriage if the alternatives were favorable …

In this paper, we study the role of education as insurance against a bad marriage. Historically, due to disparities in … had to suffer one of two fates in a bad marriage: either they get divorced (assuming it is available) and struggle as low …-income single mothers, or they remain trapped in the marriage. In both cases, education can provide a route to emancipation for …