We evaluate the effects of the transition from cohabitation to marriage on household domestic and market work hours … the presence of endogenous regressors. Our results indicate that marriage increases women's specialization in home …-based activities and that marriage decreases women's leisure. These effects are robust across specifications …

. These predictions are tested using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Marriage and divorce … marriage is used as a proxy for divorce risk … to the labour market when they are confronted with a high likelihood of divorce and vice versa. Similarly, work hours …

Higher body-weight (BMI) can affect labor supply via its effects on outcomes in both labor markets and marriage markets … market wages earned by high-BMI women, but rather lower spousal transfers to married women or lower expected intra-marriage …

Does availability of common law marriage (CLM henceforth) in the U.S help explain variation in the labor force … legal protection to household producers at the margin between single status and marriage, we expect it to discourage labor …

formulate and structurally estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of endogenous marriage and labor supply decisions in a collective … framework. We establish that the education gap at the time of marriage, produces dynamic effects due to human capital …