that the results are of importance for the design of health care and labour market policy towards the elderly. …

. The education gender gap was eliminated and married women's LFP averaged 70% over the same ages. In order to evaluate the … find that the higher probability of divorce and the changes in wage structure faced by the 1955 cohort are each able to … LFP. To eliminate the education gender gap requires, on the other hand, for the psychic cost of obtaining higher education …

We document key facts about marriage and divorce, comparing trends through the past 150 years and outcomes across … demographic groups and countries. While divorce rates have risen over the past 150 years, they have been falling for the past … the life cycle has changed, reflecting rising age at first marriage, rising divorce followed by high remarriage rates, and …

school than children living with their two parents. This result has been used to argue that softening divorce legislation … parents. Next, I exploit the large increase in separation rates following the 1975 divorce law reform (as well as cross …-regional variations in divorce rates) to show that the performance gap of single-parent children is a declining function of the separation …

changes there in the past fifteen years which have affected marriage, fertility, divorce and household formation. During the … divorce. Reform of the law concerning divorce accelerated the upward trend in divorce, and monetary and fiscal policies … timing of childbearing and the likelihood of divorce. Housing policies have continued to influence the timing of marriage and …

, (ii) an increase in the rate of divorce, and (iii) a decline in the rate of marriage. What can explain this? It is argued … marriage and divorce is developed. Household production benefits from labour-saving technological progress. …

substitute for redistribution, so that optimal redistribution is reduced. We also introduce a divorce option. Redistributive …

concluded that divorce has little effect on women’s average household income. Employing an Abadie (2003) technique that allows … us to look at the impact of marital break-up throughout the income distribution, however, we find that divorce greatly … supply, divorce significantly increases the odds that a woman with children is poor. …

spending. This finding both supports the hypothesis that the decline in marriage lies behind the political gender gap and …