In this paper we study the importance of marriage for interstate risk sharing. We find that US states in which married … more aggregated state-level. Quantitatively, the impact of marriage on interstate risk sharing varies over divorce regimes. …

is subject to a general undervaluation of what often continues to be seen as "women's" work. …

, without the rise in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be considerably higher. Immigration and secularization, and the …

Despite the perceived importance of labor market opportunities in shaping married women's outside option, and their … for men and women on both working and non-working women's decision making power. The implications for children's health …

of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different … data suggest that the introduction of joint custody led to a long-run increase in marriage rates. There is no convincing … dampened the persistent downturn in marriage. Our empirical evidence is fully consistent with the supposition that these …

contributions from demographic subgroups to these aggregate level differences. We document that women are typically the largest … measures of taxation, driven by men, and a positive correlation between hours worked and divorce rates, driven by women …. Motivated by these observations, we develop a life-cycle model with heterogeneous agents, marriage and divorce and use it to …