show substantial bonuses for married couples and four exhibit marriage penalties. On a micro level, we find that these … marriage bonuses/penalties differ substantially across household types and income. From a policy point of view, our results … suggest that the abolishment of marriage-related tax-benefit components in countries with marriage bonuses would leave some …

of marriage-related tax-benefit instruments on the labour supply of married couples. For each married partner, we … estimate their individual marginal effective tax rate and net replacement rate before and after marriage. We show that the … marriage bonus, which is economically significant in eight European countries, decreases the work incentives for women and …

Child marriage is still widespread in countries across the Indian Subcontinent. The practice has important consequences … for the health and well-being of the woman and the child. In this study, we examine the incidence of child marriage in … early-marrying women over a span of three decades. We find that the practice of child marriage has become much less …

marriage - in a context in which the laws are not strictly enforced. We do so using a randomised video-based information … intervention that aimed to accelerate knowledge transmission about a new child marriage law in Bangladesh that introduced harsher … punishments for facilitating early marriage. Follow-up surveys documented an increase in early marriage among treated households …

using marriage to engage in long-distance migration - if they are able to match with migrating grooms. Guided by a … theoretical model in which women make marriage and migration decisions jointly, we hypothesize that marriage and labour markets …

Marriage is a central stage in the transition to adulthood in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This paper … builds on the existing literature on the effect of marriage on women's employment in MENA. Besides examining how different … types of work are affected by early marriage (defined as marriage by the median age of marriage) in a multivariate setting …