: efficiently or inefficiently. Under strong, but standard, assumptions regarding marriage market equilibria, marital sorting … efficient or not. We develop a new likelihood-based metric to compare marriage market fits under the two alternative behavioral …

of married women lead to increases in their labor supply and reductions in fertility. In Italy, as well as in other … Southern European countries, low labor market participation rates of married women are observed together with low birth rates … married women. We analyze a model of labor supply and fertility, using panel data from the Bank of Italy which have been …