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 …

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. …

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 …