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 …

higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare … opportunities outside the home. Frontier women were less likely to report "gainful employment," but among those who did, relatively … more had high-status occupations. Together, these findings integrate contrasting narratives about frontier women …

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 entry of married women into the labor force and the rise in women's relative wages are amongst the most notable … their participation and wages. We show that the slowdown in participation and wage growth was concentrated among women … of the model can account for a large fraction of the decline relative to trend in married women's participation in 1995 …

incomplete. This paper studies the implications of status competition in the marriage market for the real exchange rate. In … biological desire for a marriage partner is strong. Empirically, we show that within China, those regions with a faster increase …

no such effect for women. There is some evidence to suggest that families respond to health shocks in predictable ways …

expansions between 1984 and 1996 increased married men's labor force participation only slightly but reduced married women …

estimate a life-cycle model of marriage, labor supply and divorce under limited commitment to better understand the mechanisms … of the program. Based on the model, which reproduces the reduced form estimates, we show that among low educated women … and, in ex-ante welfare terms, women are worse off …