This paper examines married women's time allocation to market hours and spousal care in the event of their husbands …

techniques, we show that a husband’s involuntary job loss is associated with an increase in the risk of divorce by roughly 70 … percent in the following period. The estimated relative risk of divorce is generally higher for involuntary job losses than …

If participation in the labor market helps to secure women's outside options in the case of divorce/separation, an … prediction has been tested in the literature using time and/or spatial variation in divorce legislation (e.g., across US states ….e., the legalization of divorce. In Ireland, the right to divorce was introduced in 1996, followed by an acceleration of …

statistically significant added worker effect for women of 14 to 17 hours weekly following their partner's job loss if they are not … eligible to receive EI benefits. The eligibility of employment insurance benefits reduces spousal labour supply among women by …

children. From this, should we infer that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? In this paper, we develop a non …-cooperative model of household decision making to answer this question. We show that when women have lower wages than men, they may … necessarily mean that giving money to women is a good development policy. We show that depending on the nature of the production …