Divorce law changes made in the 1970s affected marital formation, dissolution, and bargaining within marriage. By … altering the terms of the marital contract these legal changes impacted the incentives for women to enter and remain in the … labor force. Whereas earlier work had suggested that the impact of unilateral divorce on female employment depended …

higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …, compounded with isolation from extended family as well as a lack of social and market infrastructure, constrained female … opportunities outside the home. Frontier women were less likely to report "gainful employment," but among those who did, relatively …

While a large literature is interested in the relationship between family and labor supply outcomes, little is known … in beliefs about how future family outcomes are related to future labor supply. Methodological contributions come from an … longitudinal data, can potentially help address endogeneity issues arising in the estimation of the causal effect of family on …

-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 …

-77 percent. In this paper, we specify and estimate a model of family labor supply which treats both federal and state taxation … family labor supply decision. Joint family efforts are found to be important. The efficiency cost (deadweight loss) of labor … taxation is estimated to be 29.6% of tax revenue raised. The effect of the new 10% deduction to ease the marriage tax for …

of women committing suicide following the introduction of unilateral divorce. No significant effect is found for men … large decline in domestic violence for both men and women in states that adopted unilateral divorce. We find suggestive …Over the past thirty years changes in divorce law have significantly increased access to divorce. The different timing …

marriage market and sorting on the labor market. We first show that in theory, the nature of home production - whether partners …' hours are complements or substitutes - shapes marriage market sorting, labor market sorting and labor supply choices in … find that the home production complementarity - by strengthening positive marriage sorting and reducing the gender gap in …

men. These findings cast doubt on the notion that married women have increased their labor supply in the recent decades to …

women. To investigate this idea, we build and estimate an equilibrium search model with education, marriage/divorce …/remarriage, and household labor supply decisions. A key feature of the model is that women bear a larger share of the divorce burden … physical assets), making education a good insurance against divorce risk. However, as women further their education, the …