significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of positive assortative mating; (v) more children … fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a … shaping family life are stressed …

Marriage has declined since 1960, with the drop being bigger for non-college educated individuals versus college …. A unified model of marriage, divorce, educational attainment and married female labor-force participation is developed …

, (ii) an increase in the rate of divorce, and (iii) a decline in the rate of marriage. What can explain this? It is argued … marriage and divorce is developed. Household production benefits from labor-saving technological progress …

that subsidized children are more likely to receive intense exposure to low-quality child care …

the short and long term for parents, children, and society at large. This paper examines the causal link between teen age …

' behavior is largely independent of the presence (or absence) of their fathers. The strong effect of family structure is not … delinquent behavior and adolescent family structure that cannot be explained by fathers' involvement with their adolescent sons … adolescent family structure and delinquent behavior is not accounted for by the income differentials associated with fathers …

receiving a child care subsidy among disadvantaged mothers with young children. In particular, we collect data on the location … in the distance to a public human services agency reduces the likelihood that a family receives a child care subsidy … care subsidies on children's weight outcomes. Our instrumental variables estimates suggest that subsidized child care leads …