divorce significantly increases the probability of full-time employment later in life, and significantly decreases retirement … does not impact full-time employment after age 50 but is positively associated with investment in education post marriage … Participation (SIPP). We then exploit variation in laws governing divorce across states and over time to quasi …

significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of positive assortative mating; (v) more children …

In this paper, we investigate the effect of federal welfare reform on the employment, hours of work and marriage rates … employment and attachment to the labor market. TANF appears to have had a larger effect on the least educated native-born women … effect on native- and foreign-born citizens' marriage decisions. TANF was associated with a decrease in the marriage rates of …

We document the time-series of employment rates and hours worked per employed by married couples in the US and seven … taxes for explaining the evolution of hours worked of married couples over time, using as inputs the full country- and year … educational composition. The model is quite successful in replicating the time series behavior of hours worked per employed …

across countries in how the marriage gap for skilled women has evolved over time. As labor market opportunities for women … outcomes. The model is suited to understand the dynamics of the marriage gap for skilled women over time within a country with … have improved, the marriage gap has been growing in some countries but shrinking in others. We discuss a theoretical model …

How would people spend time if confronted by permanent declines in market work? We identify preferences off exogenous …. We estimate the probability that an individual was affected by the reform and relate it to changes in time use based on … time diaries. Reduced-form estimates show that the direct effect on a newly-constrained worker was a substantial reduction …

. A unified model of marriage, divorce, educational attainment and married female labor-force participation is developed …Marriage has declined since 1960, with the drop being bigger for non-college educated individuals versus college … educated ones. Divorce has increased, more so for the non-college educated vis-à-vis the college educated. Additionally …

manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage …, fertility and children's living circumstances during 1990-2014. On average, trade shocks differentially reduce employment and … of household specialization, shocks to male relative stature reduce marriage and fertility. Consistent with sociological …