the birth of a child. Our setting enables us to examine the effect of family policies in a region with patriarchal gender … their young children longer, the conflict between women’s dual roles as full-time worker and full-time mother is reduced … norms with respect to housework, where women were the main providers of care within the household, but egalitarian gender …

, they can affect parents' time allocation and family dynamics. This paper examines how extending the school day affects … families by focusing on marriage dissolution. We exploit the staggered adoption of a policy that extended the availability of … childcare is likely to be one of the mechanisms that relaxed restrictions to marriage dissolution. …

respond to children's endowments and to differences in endowments among siblings? Parental investment decisions depend both on … parental preferences regarding inequality in the distribution of their children's quality and on how costly it is for parents … to add to their children's quality by investing in their human capital (or the price effect). Our empirical strategy …

the household. Using a sample of PSID-CDS children, we investigate whether the birth order effects in their outcomes are …

respond to children's endowments and to differences in endowments among siblings? Parental investment decisions depend both on … parental preferences regarding inequality in the distribution of their children's quality and on how costly it is for parents … to add to their children's quality by investing in their human capital (or the price effect). Our empirical strategy …

Sex ratios, i.e., relative numbers of men and women, can affect marriage prospects, labor force participation, and … experiment to study the effect of sex ratios on the children and grandchildren of immigrants. The flow of immigrants affected the … second generation marriage market because second generation marriages were mostly endogamous, i.e., to members of the same …

Sex ratios, i.e., relative numbers of men and women, can affect marriage prospects, labor force participation, and … experiment to study the effect of sex ratios on the children and grandchildren of immigrants. The flow of immigrants affected the … second generation marriage market because second generation marriages were mostly endogamous, i.e., to members of the same …

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

non-marital fertility. This paper posits that if one role of marriage is to insure one partner's investment in children … the family home, post-separation has remained unique to marriage. We provide a model where husbands can "ante up" the … of marriage will invest more in children and have greater labor specialization, while policy changes that eroded marriage …

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