in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of assortative mating; (v) more children living with a single …

An early age at first marriage is known to be associated with a high risk of divorce. Yet it has been suggested that … beyond a certain point, the relationship between age at marriage and marital instability may become positive, because as … cycles 5 and 6 of the National Surveys of Family Growth show that the relationship between age at marriage and marital …

compare the educational attainment of the children of mothers who were required to leave employment on marriage because of the …This paper investigates the relationship between maternal employment and child outcomes using micro-data collected in … the third wave of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing. A novel source of exogenous variation in the employment …

are positively related to spousal education at the time of marriage but also fall more rapidly over time after marriage … marriage when the husband is highly educated. Overall, the results provide evidence consistent with both marital sorting on the …

specifications and estimation strategies …

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

We document the time-series of employment rates and hours worked per employed by married couples in the US and seven … taxes for explaining the evolution of hours worked of married couples over time, using as inputs the full country- and year … educational composition. The model is quite successful in replicating the time series behavior of hours worked per employed …

' displacement on wives' labor supply. Our empirical results show that husbands suffer large and persistent employment and earnings … find a small positive effect on the probability of divorce, but no effect of the husband's job displacement on fertility …

This paper develops a simulation estimation algorithm that is particularly useful for estimating dynamic panel data … employment status than the Markov model. It also implies that observed heterogeneity in education, young children and husband …