estimate a life-cycle model of marriage, labor supply and divorce under limited commitment to better understand the mechanisms … (partly due to “banking” benefits for future use), a rise in employment, and a decline in divorce rates. We then specify and …

In this paper, we investigate the effect of federal welfare reform on the employment, hours of work and marriage rates … effect on native- and foreign-born citizens' marriage decisions. TANF was associated with a decrease in the marriage rates of …

rates, educational attainment, and marriage rates among teenage women in the years before and the years immediately … associated with reduced welfare receipt, reduced fertility, reduced marriage, and lower school drop-out among young women who …

incomplete. This paper studies the implications of status competition in the marriage market for the real exchange rate. In … biological desire for a marriage partner is strong. Empirically, we show that within China, those regions with a faster increase …

participation, the wife's income conditional on working, marriage satisfaction, likelihood of divorce, and the division of home … their marriage and are more likely to divorce. Finally, based on time use surveys, the gender gap in non-market work is … particular, an aversion to the wife earning more than the husband - impacts marriage formation, the wife's labor force …

Divorce law changes made in the 1970s affected marital formation, dissolution, and bargaining within marriage. By … labor force. Whereas earlier work had suggested that the impact of unilateral divorce on female employment depended … controls. I find instead that unilateral divorce led to an increase in both married and unmarried female labor force …

We develop an equilibrium lifecycle model of education, marriage and labor supply and consumption in a transferable … utility context. Individuals start by choosing their investments in education anticipating returns in the marriage market and … the labor market. They then match based on the economic value of marriage and on preferences. Equilibrium in the marriage …