estimate a life-cycle model of marriage, labor supply and divorce under limited commitment to better understand the mechanisms … (partly due to "banking" benefits for future use), a rise in employment, and a decline in divorce rates. We then specify and …

labor supply of the secondary earner. We study the effects of eliminating these marriage-related provisions on the labor … supply. We find that these marriage-related provisions reduce the participation of married women over their life cycle, the …

higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …

In this paper, we investigate the effect of federal welfare reform on the employment, hours of work and marriage rates … effect on native- and foreign-born citizens' marriage decisions. TANF was associated with a decrease in the marriage rates of …

gender inequality. Because parenthood is often tied to marriage, we also investigate the existence of marriage penalties in … female employment. In general, women experience both marriage and child penalties, but their relative importance depends on … economic development. The development process is associated with a substitution from marriage penalties to child penalties …

increasing the liquidity available to young men after marriage. We hypothesize that one cost of migration is the disruption of …

players. For male winners, wealth increases marriage formation and reduces divorce risk, suggesting wealth increases men …We estimate the effects of large, positive wealth shocks on marriage and fertility in a sample of Swedish lottery … winners is that wealth increases their short-run (but not long-run) divorce risk. Our results for divorce are consistent with …

In the marriage market, families make investments on behalf of their young so that they are able to form a household … with their preferred partner. We analyze marriage markets in a central region of China between about 1300 and 1850 through … the lens of a model of marriage matching and intergenerational transmission of inequality. For both female and male …