000060608 001__ 60608 000060608 005__ 20200221144332.0 000060608 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.1016/j.econmod.2016.01.023 000060608 0248_ $$2sideral$$a93980 000060608 037__ $$aART-2016-93980 000060608 041__ $$aeng 000060608 100__ $$0(orcid)0000-0002-1065-1304$$aBellido, H. 000060608 245__ $$aDo children of the first marriage deter divorce? 000060608 260__ $$c2016 000060608 5060_ $$aAccess copy available to the general public$$fUnrestricted 000060608 5203_ $$aIn terms of economics, individuals divorce if their expected gains from marriage fall short of their expected utility outside the current marriage, and children represent a marriage-specific type of investment, which generally increases the value of marriage for the spouses. However, children may also disrupt marital stability as they will induce dramatic changes into the household allocation of money and time. In particular, children conceived before or after first marriage may be valued differently by the spouses and this may lead to marital conflicts. It is difficult to assign a priori the direction of the effect of children on marriage stability, and causality may run either way, as couples who anticipate a separation are more likely to have fewer children than those who are happy together, while children born before first marriage may be associated with a lower marriage attachment of their parents. Here, we follow an empirical approach and take advantage of the richness of the data on pre-marital history from the 24 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth79, to estimate the effect of children conceived before or after first marriage on marital stability. We find a significant deterrent effect of young children conceived during first marriage to the likelihood of divorce, while children conceived before first marriage are found to have a disruptive effect on marital stability. 000060608 536__ $$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/ECO2012-34828$$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/B094-09 000060608 540__ $$9info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess$$aby-nc-nd$$uhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ 000060608 590__ $$a1.481$$b2016 000060608 591__ $$aECONOMICS$$b96 / 347 = 0.277$$c2016$$dQ2$$eT1 000060608 592__ $$a0.953$$b2016 000060608 593__ $$aEconomics and Econometrics$$c2016$$dQ2 000060608 655_4 $$ainfo:eu-repo/semantics/article$$vinfo:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersion 000060608 700__ $$0(orcid)0000-0002-9437-4606$$aMolina, J.A.$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000060608 700__ $$aSolaz, A. 000060608 700__ $$aStancanelli, E. 000060608 7102_ $$14000$$2415$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDpto. Análisis Económico$$cÁrea Fund. Análisis Económico 000060608 773__ $$g55 (2016), 15-31$$pEcon. model.$$tECONOMIC MODELLING$$x0264-9993 000060608 8564_ $$s795113$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/60608/files/texto_completo.pdf$$yPreprint 000060608 8564_ $$s71022$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/60608/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon$$xicon$$yPreprint 000060608 909CO $$ooai:zaguan.unizar.es:60608$$particulos$$pdriver 000060608 951__ $$a2020-02-21-13:45:48 000060608 980__ $$aARTICLE