We consider a non-cooperative model of the household, in which the husband and wife decide on parental leave and the … sufficiently low gender wage gap), Intermediate-gap couples (with an intermediate gender wage gap) and high-gap couples (with a … sufficiently high gender wage gap). Our model predicts that while egalitarian couples never specialize and always share home …

standard models of household behavior. Examples include: marriage contracts that serve as barriers to hasty divorces (e …-inconsistent preferences. In our model, hyperbolic discounting couples engage in household production activities, thereby accumulating family …-specific capital over time. At any given point in time, the gains to continued marriage depend on the accumulated stock of this capital …

We present an equilibrium model with inter-linked frictional labour and marriage markets. Women's flow value of being … sequential job search, and can choose to improve their labour market returns as well as their marriage prospects by undertaking a …

This paper studies the impact of tax incentives on economic behavior within the household. We focus on an Italian tax … holding more conservative gender norms are the ones who mostly reduce their income. This suggests that tax policies can … gender norms. …

outearns her partner. This misreporting is best explained by the role of gender norms in individuals' self-portrayals and self-perception. …

We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using … marriage market, and affected marital outcomes of individuals whose qualification attainment were unaffected. We also decompose … the difference in marriage probabilities between unqualified individuals and those with basic qualifications into causal …

Changing distributions of male and female types affect the measurement of education-based marriage market sorting. We …

We investigate how job displacement affects whom men marry and study implications for marriage market matching theory … of the marriage market to derive several implications of our empirical findings: (i) husbands’ and wives’ incomes are … substitutes rather than complements in the marriage market; (ii) our findings are hard to reconcile with one-dimensional matching …