. These women invest more in their own human capital within marriage, which might insure them against increases in exogenous …We study associations among women's current marital status, past marital history, and later-life labor force … employment and retirement outcomes for older women. The spread of unilateral divorce, we find, was associated with cross …

husbands to their own lower earning wives. In addition, spouse and survivor benefits accrue disproportionately to women from … in two earner households, and the growth in women's labor market activity and earnings, the Social Security system now …, women enjoyed a more rapid growth of labor force participation, hours of work and covered earnings than men. This increased …

Divorce law changes made in the 1970s affected marital formation, dissolution, and bargaining within marriage. By … altering the terms of the marital contract these legal changes impacted the incentives for women to enter and remain in the …

find that NAFTA tariff reductions are associated with substantially reduced wage growth for married blue-collar women, much … married women workers less able to change their industry of employment than other workers. We find some support for an …-wage married women workers in their industry drop out of the labor market in response to their industry's loss of tariff. However …

age at first marriage among all U.S. college graduate women soared just after 1972. We explore the relationship between … young single women. The connection between changes in the age at first marriage and the pill is further explored using state …The fraction of U.S. college graduate women entering professional programs increased substantially around 1970 and the …

countries, absolutely and relative to a control group of single women without children. The cross-country differences in …

lasted at least ten years. However, if a marriage failed in less than ten years, no spousal benefits are paid. The spousal … primary worker and the secondary worker. We examine whether these couples, who have more to gain from extending their marriage …

men, pension and annuity income is important while for women, spousal income helps most to get them over the line …