We extend the search-matching model of the marriage market of Shimer and Smith (2000) to allow for labor supply, home … estimate how much sorting results from time use specialization or homophilic preferences. We estimate how equilibrium marriage … formation affects the wage elasticities of market and non market hours. We estimate individuals’ willingness to pay for marriage …

We examine changes in marriage and earnings patterns across four cohorts born between 1936 and 1975, using data from a … men and women, marriage has become increasingly positively associated with education and earnings potential. We compare … ordinary least squares (OLS) and fixed effect (FE) estimates of the earnings differential associated with marriage. We find …

orientation. The well-being gains of marriage are larger than those of cohabitation. Investigating partnership formation and … there is a causal effect of partnership on subjective well-being. Our data allow us to distinguish between marriage and … cohabitation and between same-sex partnerships and opposite-sex ones. Our results support the short-term crisis model and …

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 …

marriage as well as for a precautionary savings motive. …

Das Geschlechterverhältnis, welches in hohem Maße durch geschlechterspezifische Arbeitsteilung von Erwerbsarbeit und … Zeitverwendung für Hausarbeit aus den Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften. Die verschiedenen Ansätze werden anhand des … vorgezogen werden kann. Gängige Ansätze zur Erklärung familialer Arbeitsteilung sind somit in gleicher Weise geeignet bzw …