This paper examines the extent to which mothers that care for children where the father is non-resident have an award … or agreement for child support in place. Data from the Families and Children Study are used to explore not only whether … disadvantaged. Moreover, awards were less commonplace where there were fewer children, where mothers claimed Income Support, were …

, relatively little research has addressed the role of CS on outcomes for the children concerned. There are good reasons for … thinking that CS could leverage better outcomes than other forms of income support and, using a sample of dependent children in …

find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation …

, relatively little research has addressed the role of CS on outcomes for the children concerned. There are good reasons for … thinking that CS could leverage better outcomes than other forms of income support and, using a sample of dependent children in …

, focusing on the type of family model where children grow up, defined on the basis of parental employment status and relative …-breadwinner" arrangement. How do different family models influence the development of children's skills? We use data from the Millennium Cohort …Our paper contributes to the literature studying how household conditions can influence children's development …

We present a structural marriage market model where individuals differ in ethnicity and qualifications, and where …

positive assortative matching in the aristocratic marriage market with lump-sum transfers, where cash-constraints are placed on …

liabilities with individual psychological well-being. -- Savings ; investments ; debts ; marriage ; cohabitation ; gender ; intra …

of these two traits from either gender. Our estimate suggests inheritance is about two and a half times more important … than labor income in explaining marriage choice. This quantitative result seems to characterize the expected lifetime … inheritance and labor income after marriage for Germany under the actual rate of return, growth rate, demographics as well as …

housing price affects either total number of children, or the probability of a family having an additional birth. We differ … family size will depend on the quantity of housing that a family already owns, and its elasticity of substitution between … children and other "goods". For renters, rises in rental costs associated with higher housing prices imply only a substitution …