JEL classification

Journal of Economic Literature Classification (10696) J - Labor and Demographic Economics (1978) J1 - Demographic Economics (490) J12 - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure (55)
Number of items at this level: 55.
Article
  • Banerjee, Abhijit, Duflo, Esther, Ghatak, Maitreesh, Lafortune, Jeanne (2013). Marry for what?: caste and mate selection in modern India. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 5(2), 33-72. https://doi.org/10.1257/mic.5.2.33
  • Barbieri, Paolo, Cutuli, Giorgio, Tosi, Marco (2012). Families, labour market and social risks. Childbirth and the risk of poverty among Italian households. Stato e mercato, XXXII(3), 391-428. https://doi.org/10.1425/38644
  • Bargain, Olivier, González, Libertad, Keane, Claire, Özcan, Berkay (2012). Female labor supply and divorce: new evidence from Ireland. European Economic Review, 56(8), 1675-1691. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2012.08.007
  • Burlina, Chiara, Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés (2023). Alone and lonely. The economic cost of solitude for regions in Europe. Environment and Planning A, 55(8), 2067 - 2087. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x231169286 picture_as_pdf
  • Clark, Andrew E., Georgellis, Yannis (2013). Back to baseline in Britain: adaptation in the British household panel survey. Economica, 80(319), 496-512. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12007
  • Clark, Gregory, Cummins, Neil, Curtis, Matthew (2024). How did the European marriage pattern persist? Social versus familial inheritance: England and Quebec, 1650–1850. Economics and Human Biology, 54, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101383 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Fleche, Sarah, Pagan, Ricardo (2024). The labour market returns to sleep. Journal of Health Economics, 93, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2023.102840 picture_as_pdf
  • Cowell, Frank, Van de Gaer, Dirk (2025). Condorcet was wrong, Pareto was right: families, inheritance and inequality. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 27(2). https://doi.org/10.1111/jpet.70022 picture_as_pdf
  • Diaz, Maria Dolores Montoya, Pereda, Paula, Rocha, Fabiana, Oliveira, Pedro A.C., Árabe, Isadora Bousquat, Kreif, Noemi, Lordemus, Samuel, Moreno-Serra, Rodrigo (2025). Public policies and femicides during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from São Paulo, Brazil. Economics and Human Biology, 58, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2025.101508 picture_as_pdf
  • Gaddy, Hampton, Sear, Rebecca, Fortunato, Laura (2025). High rates of polygyny do not lock large proportions of men out of the marriage market. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122(40). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2508091122 picture_as_pdf
  • Garcia Hombrados, Jorge, Özcan, Berkay (2023). Age at marriage and marital stability: evidence from China. Review of Economics of the Household, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-023-09651-z picture_as_pdf
  • Humphries, Jane, Schneider, Benjamin (2021). Gender equality, growth, and how a technological trap destroyed female work. Economic History of Developing Regions, 36(3), 428 - 438. https://doi.org/10.1080/20780389.2021.1929606 picture_as_pdf
  • Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen, Landais, Camille, Søgaard, Jakob Egholt (2021). Does biology drive child penalties? Evidence from biological and adoptive families. American Economic Review: Insights, 3(2), 183 - 198. https://doi.org/10.1257/aeri.20200260 picture_as_pdf
  • Manacorda, Marco, Moretti, Enrico (2006). Why do most Italian youths live with their parents?: intergenerational transfers and household structure. Journal of the European Economic Association, 4(4), 800-829. https://doi.org/10.1162/JEEA.2006.4.4.800
  • Olivetti, Claudia, Petrongolo, Barbara (2017). The economic consequences of family policies: lessons from a century of legislation in high-income countries. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 31(1), 205-230. https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.31.1.205
  • Rubinstein, Yona, Brenner, D. (2014). Pride and prejudice: using ethnic-sounding names and inter-ethnic marriages to identify labor market discrimination. Review of Economic Studies, 81(1), 389-425. https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdt031
  • Suteau, Margaux (2025). Inheritance and women’s empowerment: the heterogeneous effect of property rights. Review of Economics of the Household, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-025-09820-2 picture_as_pdf
  • Tertilt, Michèle, Doepke, Matthias, Hannusch, Anne, Montenbruck, Laura (2022). The economics of women’s rights. Journal of the Economic Association, 20(6), 2271 – 2316. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvac059 picture_as_pdf
  • de la Croix, David, Schneider, Eric B., Weisdorf, Jacob (2019). Childlessness, celibacy and net fertility in pre-industrial England: the middle-class evolutionary advantage. Journal of Economic Growth, 24(3), 223–256. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10887-019-09170-6 picture_as_pdf
    • Conference or Workshop Item
  • Golaz, Valerie, Antoine, Philippe, Randall, Sara, Coast, Ernestina (2012-05-02 - 2012-05-04) Definition du menage et situation des personnes agees: comparaisons entre 4 pays Africains [Paper]. Canadian Association of African Studies Annual Conference, Quebec, Canada, CAN.
  • Kriel, Antoinette, Randall, Sara, Coast, Ernestina, Risenga, Arthur, Nyambura, Melissa (2012-07-01 - 2012-07-04) From design to practice: how can large-scale household surveys better represent the complexities of the social units under investigation? [Paper]. XVIII South African Sociological Association Annual Congress: Knowledge, Technologies and Social Change, Cape Town, South Africa, ZAF.
    • Working paper
  • Aassve, Arnstein, Burgess, Simon, Propper, Carol, Dickson, Matt (2004). Employment, family union, and childbearing decisions in Great Britain. (CASEpaper 84). Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion.
  • Albanesi, Stefania, Olivetti, Claudia, Petrongolo, Barbara (2022). Families, labor markets and policy. (CEP Discussion Papers 1887). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf
  • Ananat, Elizabeth, Michaels, Guy (2007). The effect of marital breakup on the income distribution of women with children. Centre for Economic Policy Research (Great Britain).
  • Ananat, Elizabeth O., Michaels, Guy (2007). The effect of marital breakup on the income distribution of women with children. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP0787). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Anderberg, Dan, Rainer, Helmut, Wadsworth, Jonathan, Wilson, Tanya (2013). Unemployment and domestic violence: theory and evidence. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1230). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Barban, Nicola, De Cao, Elisabetta, Oreffice, Sonia, Quintana-Domeque, Climent (2016). Assortative mating on education: a genetic assessment. (Working Paper 2016-034). Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group.
  • Bargain, Olivier, González, Libertad, Keane, Claire, Özcan, Berkay (2010). Female labor supply and divorce: new evidence from Ireland. (Discussion Paper Series 4959). Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
  • Bonnet, Carole, Garbinti, Bertrand, Solaz, Anne (2018). Does part-time mothering help get a job? The role of shared custody in women’s employment. (CASEpapers 209). Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion. picture_as_pdf
  • Brown, Dan, De Cao, Elisabetta (2018). The impact of unemployment on child maltreatment in the United States. (Working Paper 2018-04). Institute for Social and Economic Research.
  • Clark, Andrew E., Diener, Ed, Georgellis, Yannis, Lucas, Richard E. (2007). Lags and leads in life satisfaction: a test of the baseline hypothesis. (CEPDP 836). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Currie, Janet, Schwandt, Hannes (2015). Short and long-term effects of unemployment on fertility. (CEP Discussion Paper 1387). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • De Cao, Elisabetta, Barban, Nicola, Oreffice, Sonia, Quintana-Domeque, Climent (2019). Assortative mating on education: a genetic assessment. (IZA Discussion Paper Series 12563). Institute of Labor Economics. picture_as_pdf
  • Esteve, Albert, Becca, Federica, Castro, Andrés (2023). Family change in Latin America: schooling and labor market implications for children and women. (III Working Papers 108). International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.9r7nqz8gn7qd picture_as_pdf
  • Farahzadi, Shadi (2024). The integration penalty: impact of 9/11 on the Muslim marriage market. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP2059). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf
  • Farré, Lídia, González, Libertad, Hupkau, Claudia, Ruiz-Valenzuela, Jenifer (2024). Paternity leave and child development. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP2024). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf
  • Foerster, Hanno, Obermeier, Tim, Schulz, Bastian (2024). Job displacement, remarriage and marital sorting. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP2045). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf
  • Ganguli, Ina, Hausmann, Ricardo, Viarengo, Martina (2010). 'Schooling can’t buy me love': marriage, work, and the gender education gap in Latin America. (CID working paper 197). Center for International Development at Harvard University.
  • González, Libertad, Özcan, Berkay (2008). The risk of divorce and household saving behavior. (Discussion Paper Series 3726). Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
  • Gutiérrez-Domènech, Maria (2002). The impact of the labour market on the timing of marriage and births in Spain. (CEPDP 556). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Güveli, Ayşe, Ganzeboom, Harry, Baykara-Krumme, Helen, Platt, Lucinda, Eroğlu, Şebnem, Spierings, Niels, Bayrakdar, Sait, Nauck, Bernhard, Sozeri, Efe K. (2014). 2000 families: identifying the research potential of an origins-of-migration study. (CReAM discussion paper series CDP 35/14). Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), University College London.
  • Hu, Sijie (2020). Survival of the Confucians: social status and fertility in China, 1400-1900. (Economic History Working Papers 307). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Ivandic, Ria, Kirchmaier, Thomas, Linton, Ben (2020). Changing patterns of domestic abuse during Covid-19 lockdown. (CEP Discussion Papers 1729). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf
  • Ivandic, Ria, Kirchmaier, Thomas, Torres I Blas, Neus (2021). Football, alcohol and domestic abuse. (CEP Discussion Papers 1781). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf
  • Iyengar, Radha, Ferrari, Giulia (2011). Comparing economic and social interventions to reduce intimate partner violence: evidence from Central and Southern Africa. (NBER Working papers 16902). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w16902
  • Iyengar, Radha, Ferrari, Giulia (2010). Discussion sessions coupled with microfinancing may enhance the roles of women in household decision-making in Burundi. (CEP discussion papers CEPDP1010). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Kiernan, Kathleen (2003). Cohabitation and divorce across nations and generations. (CASEpaper 65). Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion.
  • Kiernan, Kathleen (2005). Non-residential fatherhood and child involvement: evidence from the millennium cohort study. (CASEpaper 100). Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion.
  • Manacorda, Marco, Moretti, Enrico (2002). Intergenerational transfers and household structure: why do most Italian youths live with their parents? (CEPDP 536). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Morris, Stephen (2007). Child support awards in Britain: an analysis of data from the families and children study. (CASEpapers 119). Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion.
  • Platt, Lucinda, Haux, Tina, Rosenberg, Rachel (2015). Mothers, parenting and the impact of separation. (CASE papers 190). Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion.
  • Platt, Lucinda, Haux, Tina, Rosenberg, Rachel (2015). Parenting and post-separation contact what are the links? (CASEpaper 189). Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion.
  • Stewart, Kitty, Reeves, Aaron, Patrick, Ruth (2021). A time of need: exploring the changing poverty risk facing larger families in the UK. (CASEpapers CASE 224). Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion. picture_as_pdf
  • de la Croix, David, Schneider, Eric B., Weisdorf, Jacob (2018). "Decessit sine prole" - childlessness, celibacy, and survival of the richest in pre-industrial England. (Economic History working papers 276/2018). London School of Economics and Political Science.
    • Blog post
  • Randall, Sara, Coast, Ernestina (10 June 2013) The power of the interviewer. Africa at LSE. picture_as_pdf