Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women … specialization in work weakened. The primary source of the gains to marriage shifted from the production of household services and … commodities to investment in children. For some, these changes meant that marriage was no longer worth the costs of limited …

more children than cohabiting couples primarily because marriage provides stronger incentives for specialization in …

how the magnitude of the estimated elasticities varies depending on whether net or gross wages and income are used in the … changes in their own or spouses' wages. …

matching and marriage quality for each couple is revealed ex post. Changes in alimony laws are shown to affect existing couples … marriage match quality is low, while, for couples not yet formed, they generate offsetting intra-household transfers and lower … different years and requiring different cohabitation length. We find that obtaining the right to petition for alimony led women …

. Motivated by these observations, we develop a life-cycle model with heterogeneous agents, marriage and divorce and use it to … study the impact of two mechanisms on labor supply: (i) differences in marriage stability and (ii) differences in tax … systems, and as we replace the U.S. divorce and marriage rates with their European equivalents. We find that the divorce and …

How marriage interacts with men's earnings is an important public policy issue, given debates over programs to directly … encourage healthy marriages. This paper generates new findings about the earnings-marriage relationship by estimating the … linkages between marriage, work commitment, and wage rates. Unlike other studies of the marital wage premium for men, we …

observed in the 1980s, with an additional factor being that husbands' real wages fell slightly in the 1980s but rose in the … elasticity. And, continuing past trends, women's labor supply also became less responsive to their husbands' wages. Between 1980 … in observing wage offers; selection into marriage; income taxes and the earned income tax credit; measurement error in …