marriage breakdown rates. We use this fundamental change in the Irish society as a natural experiment. We follow a difference …

more children than cohabiting couples primarily because marriage provides stronger incentives for specialization in …

Does availability of common law marriage (CLM henceforth) in the U.S help explain variation in the labor force … legal protection to household producers at the margin between single status and marriage, we expect it to discourage labor …

We evaluate the effects of the transition from cohabitation to marriage on household domestic and market work hours … the presence of endogenous regressors. Our results indicate that marriage increases women’s specialization in home …-based activities and that marriage decreases women’s leisure. These effects are robust across specifications. …

How marriage interacts with men’s earnings is an important public policy issue, given debates over programs to directly … encourage healthy marriages. This paper generates new findings about the earnings-marriage relationship by estimating the … linkages between marriage, work commitment, and wage rates. Unlike other studies of the marital wage premium for men, we …

This paper studies the effects of different income transfers on individual welfare, in both marriage and divorce … losses derived from the marriage. We have also found that the donor of an intergenerational transfer can behave in a …