techniques. We find no assoication between marriage and wages for women, but for men a large and significant premium exists with … on men's and women's earnings. We extend earlier earnings research and investigate whether the effect of marriage is … and family characteristics. Overall, there are very few differences in the association between marriage and earnings for …

In the 1980s, both wages and labor supply of poorly educated men fell substantially relative to those of educated men … hours and wages. The small implied labor supply elasticities suggest that very little of the labor supply changes of men …. Some observers have interpreted this positive association between changes in wages and labor supply as reflecting movement …

suggests a strong negative response of female labor supply to changes in their husband's wages. Family labor supply behavior … their husband's wages attenuated somewhat the increases in individual wage inequality at the family level: The results …The large changes in relative wages that occurred during the 1980s provide fertile ground for studying the behavioral …

endogenous variables of interest to a policy-maker, including unemployment rates, durations and wages of low- and high …

of personhood. Embryo adoption raises several questions surrounding the institution of marriage. Due to its untraditional … method of procreation, embryo adoption calls into question the role of procreation within marriage. In Chapter Two, I explore … the nature of the marriage relationship by offering Lisa Cahill’s definition of marriage which involves both a spiritual …

affect wages. In the standard analyses of wage bargaining, the negotiating partners are specified a priori, and thus it is …

This dissertation consists of two essays concerning the determination of wages across areas. The first essay … investigates the equilibrium relationship between wages and prices across labor markets. Of central interest is the extent to which … workers receive higher wages to compensate for differences in the cost of living. According to the spatial equilibrium …