expected income effect. Neither do our results reveal that leisure is shifted from women to men as a response to the changed …

expected income effect. Neither do our results reveal that leisure is shifted from women to men as a response to the changed …

We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent cohorts of West German men in … is observed to be coresiding with a son or a daughter. Men are more likely to remain in the same household with a male … supply model reveals that men who remain with female children are strongly positively selected (in terms of their work hours …

We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent cohorts of West German men in … is observed to be coresiding with a son or a daughter. Men are more likely to remain in the same household with a male … supply model reveals that men who remain with female children are strongly positively selected (in terms of their work hours …

We evaluate the effects of the transition from cohabitation to marriage on household domestic and market work hours … the presence of endogenous regressors. Our results indicate that marriage increases women's specialization in home …-based activities and that marriage decreases women's leisure. These effects are robust across specifications. …

introduced in 2008. This reform imposed financial self-responsibility after a finalized divorce. It weakened the relative … bargaining position of the spouse with a claim for maintenance in the case of a potential divorce prior to the law change …

divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we … find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation …. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer utility …

divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we … find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation … household. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer …

Drawing on German household data from 1992 to 2011, this paper analyzes how couples allocate housework against the … - influence his or her contribution to housework? (2) If so, does the magnitude of this influence differ by gender? and (3) How … important are traditional gender roles on housework allocation? We address these issues by applying panel quantile regression …

data from Germany, we also present empirical evidence which is consistent with this finding. -- marriage ; divorce ; single …This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with … mothers than for single mothers. We show that this increases the number of single mothers and the divorce rate. Using survey …