Population and Family Economics (22036)

Contents:

• Facts about Marriage and the Family
  
• Fertility
• Gains from Marriage
• Marriage Market and Matching
• Divorce and its Consequences

References:

Hotz, J.; Klerman, J.; Willis, R. (1997): The Economics of Fertility in Developed Countries. In Rosenzweig, M.; Stark, O. (Eds.): Handbook of Population and Family Economics. Vol. 1A, Elsevier: Amsterdam, chapter 7.

Weiss, Y. (1997): The Formation and Dissolution of Families: Why Marry? Who Marries Whom? And What Happens Upon Divorce. In Rosenzweig, M.R.; Stark, O. (Eds.): Handbook of Population and Family Economics. Vol. 1A, Elsevier: Amsterdam et al., chapter 3.

Lecture notes and the papers cited therein.