wage rates, employment, and hours; labor market shocks; spouse characteristics and shocks; nonlabor income shocks; and … PSID data and Altonji, Giraldo-Páez, Hynsjö, and Vidangos' (2024) statistical model of earnings, marriage, marital sorting …, fertility, and nonlabor income. We find that education and employment heterogeneity are key sources of the rise in the variance …

marriage market and sorting on the labor market. We first show that in theory, the nature of home production - whether partners …' hours are complements or substitutes - shapes marriage market sorting, labor market sorting and labor supply choices in … find that the home production complementarity - by strengthening positive marriage sorting and reducing the gender gap in …

the fertility and marital behavior in Germany, until recently a lowest-low fertility setting. We find that exposure to …, workers in industries that benefited from increased exports had better employment prospects and higher fertility. These …

administrative data from Germany and Sweden. We first conduct an event-study analysis of couples moving across commuting zones and … find that relocation increases men's earnings more than women's, with strikingly similar patterns in Germany and Sweden … using variation in norms within Germany. We then develop and estimate a model of household decision-making in which …

Learning about marriage quality has been proposed as a key mechanism for explaining how the probability of divorce … evolves with marriage duration, and why people often cohabit before getting married. I develop four theoretical models of …, the data is consistent with a model without any learning, but where marriage quality changes over time …

Cohabitation became an acceptable living arrangement for all groups, but cohabitation serves different functions among … educated typically cohabit before marriage, but they marry before conceiving children and their marriages are relatively stable …Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women …