We explore several problems in drawing causal inferences from cross-sectional relationships between marriage …, motherhood, and wages. We find that heterogeneity leads to biased estimates of the quot;directquot; effects of marriage and … motherhood on wages (i.e., effects net of experience and tenure); first-difference estimates reveal no direct effect of marriage …

incidence of marriage of young women (age 16-24). We employ a two-stage methodology. First, across individuals, marriage is …Using the 1970, 1980 and 1990 Censuses, we investigate the impact of labor and marriage market conditions on the … effects are regressed on MSA-level labor and marriage market conditions and welfare benefits using cross-section and fixed …

Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to fathers) increases expenditures on … children. Does this imply that targeting transfers to women promotes economic development? Not necessarily. We consider a … noncooperative model of the household where a gender wage gap leads to endogenous household specialization. As a result, women indeed …

Marriage has declined since 1960, with the drop being bigger for non-college educated individuals versus college …. A unified model of marriage, divorce, educational attainment and married female labor-force participation is developed …

in married women's employment rates in the 1980s and early 1990s, suggesting an important role for factors not considered …We document the time-series of employment rates and hours worked per employed by married couples in the US and seven …

In this paper, we investigate the effect of federal welfare reform on the employment, hours of work and marriage rates … employment and attachment to the labor market. TANF appears to have had a larger effect on the least educated native-born women … of three groups of low-educated women: foreign-born citizens, foreign-born non-citizens and native-born citizens. Among …

significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of positive assortative mating; (v) more children … living with a single mother; (vi) shifts in social norms governing premarital sex and married women's roles in the workplace …

employment and retirement outcomes for older women. The spread of unilateral divorce, we find, was associated with cross … does not impact full-time employment after age 50 but is positively associated with investment in education post marriage …. These women invest more in their own human capital within marriage, which might insure them against increases in exogenous …