. 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 …

family businesses and co-working of spouses, creates a similar discontinuity. Using linked employer-employee data from …

market wages earned by high-BMI women, but rather lower spousal transfers to married women or lower expected intra-marriage …Higher body-weight (BMI) can affect labor supply via its effects on outcomes in both labor markets and marriage markets … expect that higher BMI will increase willingness to supply labor in labor markets, especially for women. We use US panel data …

typically greater than in the US and in the UK, but find that, in contrast to all other groups, for married women mobility is … approximately uniform across countries when estimates are based on women's own earnings. Defining offspring outcomes in terms of … family earnings, on the other hand, leads to estimates of intergenerational mobility in the Nordic countries which exceed …

for correlated unobserved heterogeneity across the migration and the divorce processes. The family migrants are divided … developed countries. Young migrants with low income are influenced most by a divorce. We find some evidence of marriage for …Many migrants have non-labour motives to migrate and they differ substantially in their migration behaviour. Family …

rates of married women. A model is built in order to estimate this effect, in which the employment of married men and women … households are predicted to have higher employment rates than women in Classical households if they have narrower labor market … employment rates and wages. We estimate that 38 percent of households are Modern and that the participation rate of women in …

Italian women have the lowest market employment rates. We model the three different time uses simultaneously for the two … is significantly negative for housework of women. Childcare time of fathers increases with own wage and with the presence …

-selection behavior within marriages. China's 2001 divorce reform liberalized divorce in favor of women and secured women's property … rights after separation. We use this improvement in women's bargaining power in marriage for a regression discontinuity …This paper explores how the relative circumstances of men and women following marital dissolution affect sex …

Using data from the 2011 and 2016 Life in Kyrgyzstan surveys, we examine Kyrgyz women's labour supply elasticities at … the extensive margin. We use Heckman's two-step approach to predict earnings for the non-participating women and then use … these predictions to estimate the participation equation. We find that women's labour supply decision is not influenced by …

legal reform that exogenously fostered women's access to justice and their ability to divorce. We theoretically establish … that compared to women of patrilocal tradition, matrilocal women should divorce relatively more after the reform and, for …-difference estimations with fixed effects. We confirm the relative increase in divorce among matrilocal women and, for those who stay married …