A large fraction of domestically abused women report that their partners interfere with their participation in … implications for welfare policy. This paper puts forward a theoretical framework that rationalizes why men may use violence …-monotonic relationship between the gender wage gap and domestic violence. We explore the implication of this result in the context of various …

the small differences in married men's and the large differences in married women's hours worked in the data. Taking the … generating the low cross-country correlation between married men's and women's hours worked in the data, and for explaining the … variation of married women's hours worked across European countries …

that runs against the intuition that family ties weaken self-selection. Secondary earners in couples are more weakly self …

The role of women in Western societies changed dramatically in the 20th century. We study how political empowerment … affected women’s emancipation as reflected in their life choices like marital decisions and labor market participation. The … staggered introduction of female suffrage in Swiss states allows us to exploit the variation in the age women experienced …

We present a dynamic lifecycle model of women's choices with respect to partnership status, labour supply and fertility … uncertainty about a partner's abusive type creates incentives for women to delay fertility, reduce fertility overall, divorce more … subsidized childcare when the mother is working. While higher wages reduce women's overall exposure to abuse, both income support …

We present an equilibrium model with inter-linked labour and marriage markets, and argue that search frictions play an … important role in explaining the male marriage premium. If men are viewed as bread-winners within households, this expectation … marriage market, male reservation wages linked to productivities do affect the resulting assortative matching structure, and …

the legal costs of divorce, on the interrelationships among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce …

against women. We find that husband`s education lowers the probability of suffering physical, emotional and economic violence …. The only aspect of violence not affected by spouse's education is sexual violence. Schooling also lowers the likelihood … that the marriage was arranged against the woman's will, and makes men less inclined to engage in socially unacceptable …

Is unemployment the overwhelming determinant of domestic violence that many commentators expect it to be? The … abuse: an increase in male unemployment decreases the incidence of intimate partner violence, while an increase in female … unemployment increases domestic abuse. Combining data on intimate partner violence from the British Crime Survey with locally …

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 …