In direct contrast to conventional wisdom and most economic models of gender differences in age of marriage, we present …

. We adopt the two-step estimation procedure. In the first step, we obtain parameter estimates of the self … the same time the nonlabor income effect is insignificant. …

one of these phases, the education phase, affects the timing of marriage and childbearing. For this purpose, we exploit … short school year exposure affects the timing of marriage for individuals in all secondary school tracks and shifts forward …. This is important as not only age at marriage and first birth increases in many countries, but also the duration of the …

composition within the household. -- Optimal taxation of married couples ; joint taxation ; labor supply estimation …

from intermarriage vanish and do not differ from premiums from marriage between immigrants. However, immigrants who …

into motherhood and first marriage is based. Individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) are … merged with a rich set of district-level contextual data to estimate first birth and marriage probabilities of western German … women during the 1980s and 1990s. None of the estimated multilevel discrete-time logit models provides conclusive evidence …

labor supply of full time working women, but only in Western Germany. We also show that gender identity affects the supply …

time periods. Using Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics data and a number of different identification strategies, we …