gender inequality. Because parenthood is often tied to marriage, we also investigate the existence of marriage penalties in … female employment. In general, women experience both marriage and child penalties, but their relative importance depends on … economic development. The development process is associated with a substitution from marriage penalties to child penalties …

We study the role of marriage for women's intergenerational mobility during the Ming-Qing (1368-1911) period. Using … status information based on the timing of marriage from family histories in Central China, already in the early 1500s it is … status of biological and in-law families means that marriage accounts for more than one third of total intergenerational …

when factors that affect tax liability are associated with race. We provide new evidence on racial differences in marriage … of income. We show that marriage rates are much higher among white adults than Black adults, which implies that two …

person's marriage ends in divorce. According to the standard economic model of marriage, the arrival of new information about …

In this paper, we investigate the effect of federal welfare reform on the employment, hours of work and marriage rates … effect on native- and foreign-born citizens' marriage decisions. TANF was associated with a decrease in the marriage rates of …

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 …