Using March Current Population Survey (CPS) data, we investigate married women's labor supply behavior from 1980 to … 1990s. Moreover, a major new development was that, during both decades, there was a dramatic reduction in women's own wage … elasticity. And, continuing past trends, women's labor supply also became less responsive to their husbands' wages. Between 1980 …

age at first marriage. This paper examines the implications of women's delayed entry to marriage for marital stability … marriage and marital instability without holding constant the couple's characteristics at marriage is negative up to the late … twenties, with the curve leveling off thereafter. Women who marry in the late twenties and thirties generally enter …

a hypothesis of "on-the-marriage" search. The results are most supportive of the search interpretation. No strong …

The age at which women enter first marriage is known to be a major factor in marital instability. But to date possible … differences by race/ethnicity in the shape of the curve relating women's age at entry into first marriage to marital instability … and non-marital fertility. For white women, but not for their black and Hispanic counterparts, delayed entry into marriage …

It is well known that female age at first marriage positively correlates with male income inequality. The common … challenges that interpretation with a novel econometric method. I utilize the fact that the female age at first marriage was …

previous literature on this topic claims that marriage is a waiting game in which women are choosier than men, and old and rich … show that their shorter biological clocks make women uniformly less choosy than men of the same age. This turns marriage … into a rushing game in which women are willing to marry older men because delaying marriage is too costly for women. Our …

highly educated women substituted work for time devoted to housework and childcare, while less educated wives substituted … women with higher education suggests that the difference between them and less educated wives in the response to reduced …

entirely driven by girls from more disadvantaged households. Treated women later experienced important positive improvements in … labor market opportunity and marriage quality, as measured by bride price received and household bargaining power. We …

women) can help explain measurable outcomes such as marriage formation, intra-marriage distribution of consumption goods …This paper reviews models of marriage, with special emphasis on how the sex ratio (the ratio of marriageable men to …

two-hour increase in housework time for each partner upon marriage, with women specializing in routine, and men … Australia, UK and US, we find that selection into marriage by individuals with a higher taste for home-produced goods can …