drawn from SHARE, we show that although marriage has a negative effect on women's employment (3.3%), its magnitude is much … marriage or pregnancy, is responsible for women exiting the labor force upon motherhood. … assess to what extent marriage decisions and pregnancies (rather than live births), which tend to occur around the birth of …

non-married cohabiting parents. This effect results from a reduced risk of single parenthood among women who gained from …

certain sectors and jobs were required to leave their jobs once they married. The majority of women affected by this "Marriage … decisions of women is used to investigate this relationship. Between the 1920s and the 1970s in Ireland, women working in … compare the educational attainment of the children of mothers who were required to leave employment on marriage because of the …