models and by calibrating them using data on males only. In this paper we ask whether ignoring gender and marriage in both …Wages, labor market participation, hours worked, and savings differ by gender and marital status. In addition, women …, and total earnings. For the most part, macroeconomists have been ignoring women and marriage in setting up structural …

This paper shows how parental preferences for sons versus daughters affect divorce, child custody, marriage, shotgun … marriage when the sex of the child is known before birth, and fertility stopping rules. We document that parents with girls are …

cascade from labor market choices, including human capital accumulation and occupational choice, to marriage market choices … as channels underlying this gender divergence. Our findings have implications for policies aimed at gender equality in … outcomes, as they reveal how persistent gaps can arise even in institutionally gender-neutral settings with early …

gender gap in labor supply. Gender differences in beliefs about this future gap are primarily explained by gender differences …

We examine the association between nonmarital childbearing and the subsequent likelihood of first marriage and document … expectations of future marriage. Rather, the direction of causation is just the reverse: Nonmarital childbearing tends to be an … first marriage. Further, the upward trend in the proportion of childbearing that occurs outside of marriage may account for …

with stable earnings and marriage rates among women. Wilson (1987) reasons that because single motherhood is an alternative … to traditional marriage, circumstances that impede marriage should also encourage single motherhood. However, few studies … marriage market prospects and the prevalence of never-married mothers. Much of the existing literature frames the expansion of …

Economists usually assume that bargaining in marriage leads to efficient outcomes. The most convincing rationale for … environments, and that marriage provides such an environment. This paper argues that when a current decision affects future … binding commitments regarding allocation within marriage. To investigate the efficiency of bargaining within marriage when …