. 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 …

marriage and public spending on children is U-shaped, that is, declines in marriage first reduce and then increase such …

. The gender gap in the preferences for public goods is proxied by the availability of divorce, which implies marital … affected positively by per capita income and negatively by the presence of Catholicism and the availability of divorce, while …

marriages are surprisingly as stable as average marriages, but have fewer children and have them later in marriage. Notably, the … children born to marginal marriages are similar in terms of health at birth. …

shock significantly increased the probability of divorce/separation among senior women by 19%. Our results show that …

During the 1970s the US underwent an important change in its divorce laws, switching from mutual consent to a … unilateral divorce regime. Who benefited and who lost from this change? To answer this question we develop a dynamic life …-cycle model in which agents make consumption, saving, labor force participation (LFP), and marriage and divorce decisions subject …

supply, divorce significantly increases the odds that a woman with children is poor. … 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 …