beyond increasing the divorce rate. They can influence female labor supply, marriage and fertility rates, child well …

formulate and structurally estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of endogenous marriage and labor supply decisions in a collective … framework. We establish that the education gap at the time of marriage, produces dynamic effects due to human capital …

formulate and structurally estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of endogenous marriage and labor supply decisions in a collective … framework. We establish that the education gap at the time of marriage, produces dynamic effects due to human capital …

this paper, we argue that the combined effect of mating on the marriage market and life time labor supply decisions can … early employment choices. To analyze this mechanism, we formulate a dynamic life cycle model of marriage and divorce, with … married women's employment and a 7% increase in marriage rate, comprised mainly of households in which the wife is married …

impact of marriage. I find clear evidence that the elasticity of labor supply with respect to wages and taxes is affected by … marriage decisions. The empirical results show that males who are continuously married to the same wife have a lower average …

relationship between women's age at first marriage and marital instability. They interpreted this finding as a "poor-match" effect … evidence of the existence of this effect: women who delay marriage disproportionately make unconventional matches, which are … to first marriage has been accompanied by higher proportions of women entering marriage with 16 years of schooling or …

We present an equilibrium model of inter-linked frictional labour and marriage markets. In the marital market, men and … (initiated by women) is an option, in an equilibrium with male marriage premium married men have a higher reservation wage than …