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 …

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 …

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 "direct" effects of marriage and motherhood on … wages (i.e., effects net of experience and tenure); first-difference estimates reveal no direct effect of marriage or …

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 …

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 …

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 …

with stable earnings and marriage rates among women. Wilson (1987) reasons that because single motherhood is an alternative … women responded to poor marriage markets by choosing to raise children on their own, but this choice may not have been … that, during economic downturns, the women who face the worst marriage prospects are themselves economically disadvantaged …