Wages, labor market participation, hours worked, and savings differ by gender and marital status. In addition, women … models and by calibrating them using data on males only. In this paper we ask whether ignoring gender and marriage in both …

their marriage and are more likely to divorce. Finally, based on time use surveys, the gender gap in non-market work is …We examine causes and consequences of relative income within households. We establish that gender identity - in … participation, the wife's income conditional on working, marriage satisfaction, likelihood of divorce, and the division of home …

. 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 …

; however, our estimates combined with differences in rates of widowhood across gender suggest that marital status can explain … only one third of the gender difference in total out-of-pocket medical spending, leaving a large portion unexplained. On … the other hand, gender differences in widowhood more than explain the observed gender difference in out-of-pocket spending …