This paper analyzes how gasoline tax rates are related to the time workers in the United States spend commuting by private car, public transport, or with other physical modes of transport. Our identification strategy relies on both between-state differences and time variations in gasoline taxes....

This paper exploits the complex sequential structure of the diary data in the American Heritage Time Use Study (AHTUS) and constructs three classes of indicators that capture the quality of leisure ('pure leisure,' 'co-present leisure' and 'leisure fragmentation') to show that the relative...

The time that workers spend commuting to and from work has increased in recent decades in many developed economies. However, most research on the topic has ignored how a couple’s commuting behaviors are related. This paper analyzes how husband and wife commuting behaviors respond to job change...

This paper describes Gary Becker's theoretical models of marriage. At the micro-level, these are all rational choice models. At the market level, Becker offers two major types of models: partial equilibrium models based on Price Theory as taught by Marshall and Friedman and optimal sorting...

It follows from a number of theoretical models of marriage that the scarcer women are relative to men, i.e. the higher the sex ratio, the less married women are likely to participate in the labor force. Such sex ratio effects may be stronger among less educated women. These predictions are...

This paper sheds light on the determinants of choice between four co-parenting arrangements: father absence, father's non-residential visitations, cohabitation, and marriage. In our theoretical framework, we use an adaptation of Becker's Demand & Supply (D&S) model of marriage and a hierarchy of...