-cycle model in which agents make consumption, saving, labor force participation (LFP), and marriage and divorce decisions subject … divorce regime had only a small effect on the LFP of married women in the 1940 cohort, these effects would be considerably …During the 1970s the US underwent an important change in its divorce laws, switching from mutual consent to a …

The economic theory of marriage developed by Gary Becker is used to guide the estimation and interpretation of … socioeconomic influences on the probabilities of marital dissolution at particular durations of marriage and the probability of … remarriage within three years of dissolution. The analysis is based on the demographic and work histories in the 1980 Women and …

family and society. We find that both the higher female marital status gap, and its time variability, vanish for those women …We study the joint impact of gender and marital status on financial investment by testing the hypothesis that marriage … represents - in a portfolio framework - a sort of safe asset, and that this effect is stronger for women. We show that married …

adopt a search theoretic framework to analyse the decisions to: leave the parental home; form a marriage or partnership; and … dissolve a marriage or partnership. We focus, in particular, on the impact of economic factors. Using a 14-year panel dataset …

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

, (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. … feasible for singles to maintain their own home, and for married women to work. To address this question, a search model of …

We study a setting with search frictions in the marriage market and with incomplete contracting inside the family …, because he may dislike the implicit income redistribution implied by marriage. Redistributive income taxation may ease this … substitute for redistribution, so that optimal redistribution is reduced. We also introduce a divorce option. Redistributive …

We offer a rationale for the decision to extend the franchise to women within a politico-economic model where men are … richer than women, women display a higher preference for public goods, and women’s disenfranchisement carries a societal cost …. We first derive the tax rate chosen by the male median voter when women are disenfranchised. Next we show that, as …

The Paper investigates the relationship of work and family life in Britain. Using hazard regression techniques we …

1980 Women in Employment Survey) finds significant sample selection bias for women in full-time jobs. Part of the observed … differential between the hourly pay of full-timers and part-timers arises because of self-selection of women who can command higher … remunerated at a lower rate in part-time than in full-time employment. Thus, the larger proportion of women than men in part …