should be positively associated with marriage probability for those single people who expect to marry a higher earning spouse …. These predictions are tested using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Marriage and divorce … probabilities are calculated from Cox proportional hazard models and are included in regressions of annual hours. Married women are …

Italian women have the lowest market employment rates. We model the three different time uses simultaneously for the two … is significantly negative for housework of women. Childcare time of fathers increases with own wage and with the presence …

This paper provides a theoretical framework for analyzing the impact of the marriage market and divorce legislation on … household labor supply. In our approach, the sex ratio in the marriage market and the rules governing divorce are examples of … results do not reject the restrictions imposed by the model. Also, the sex ratio and divorce laws deemed favorable to women …