This paper develops a quantitative life-cycle model to study the increase in married women's labor force participation …

-cycle of the 1940 cohort. Conditioning solely on gender, our ex ante welfare analysis finds that women would fare better under …-cycle model in which agents make consumption, saving, labor force participation (LFP), and marriage and divorce decisions subject … mutual consent whereas men would prefer a unilateral system. Once we condition not only on gender but also on initial …

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 … particular, an aversion to the wife earning more than the husband - impacts marriage formation, the wife's labor force …

We develop an equilibrium lifecycle model of education, marriage and labor supply and consumption in a transferable … utility context. Individuals start by choosing their investments in education anticipating returns in the marriage market and … the labor market. They then match based on the economic value of marriage and on preferences. Equilibrium in the marriage …

within marriage, with an eye to their partner's divorce threat. …

Why has the expansion of women's economic and political rights coincided with economic development? This paper … investigates this question, focusing on a key economic right for women: property rights. The basic hypothesis is that the process … their daughters. The model predicts that declining fertility would hasten reform of women's property rights whereas legal …

women live longer than men, elderly women incur higher out-of-pocket medical spending than men at each age. In this paper …; 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 education gender gap was eliminated and married women's LFP averaged 70% over the same ages. In order to evaluate the …Women born in 1935 went to college significantly less than their male counterparts and married women's labor force … quantitative contributions of the many significant changes in the economic environment, family structure, and social norms that …

women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed. Marriage and remarriage rates have risen for women with a college … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed …

Ever since Lucy Stone decided to retain her surname at marriage in 1855, women in America have tried to do the same … fraction of college graduate women who kept their surnames upon marriage and after childbirth and explores some of the … Harvard class of 1980. A time series on surname retention at marriage for college graduate women, gleaned from wedding …