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 …

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 …

in married women's employment rates in the 1980s and early 1990s, suggesting an important role for factors not considered …

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 …

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 …