The Social Security program, like the federal income tax system, is not marriage neutral. In the income tax literature … couple, in effect, faces a marriage penalty (marriage subsidy). Similarly, provisions in Social Security lead to marriage … subsidies or penalties. In this paper, we examine marriage penalties associated with Social Security's child-in-care benefits …

increase in the likelihood of being divorced of 11.7 percent at ten years of marriage. For people between the ages of 35 and 55 …

increase in the likelihood of being divorced of 11.7 percent at ten years of marriage. For people between the ages of 35 and 55 …

This paper provides the first empirical analysis on the relationship between domestic violence and women's earnings in … violence and women's earnings in Mexico for all types of intimate partner violence and independent of the IPV measure used. …

Divorce and widowhood followed by remarriage are common for women in Africa. A key question is how such discontinuous … marital trajectories affect women's wellbeing. Women's marital trajectories in Senegal are described and correlated with … widowhood as well as subsequent remarriage is documented. Poorer women are more vulnerable to both dissolution and remarriage …