The labor market impacts of women’s age at marriage have recently received significant attention from social scientists … marriage affects labor market prospects of women in developing countries. This paper addresses this gap in the existing … literature by providing the first comprehensive assessment of the relationship between women’s age at marriage and own as well as …

-cycle model in which agents make consumption, saving, labor force participation (LFP), and marriage and divorce decisions subject … divorce regime had only a small effect on the LFP of married women in the 1940 cohort, these effects would be considerably …During the 1970s the US underwent an important change in its divorce laws, switching from mutual consent to a …

-cycle model in which agents make consumption, saving, labor force participation (LFP), and marriage and divorce decisions subject … divorce regime had only a small effect on the LFP of married women in the 1940 cohort, these effects would be considerably …During the 1970s the US underwent an important change in its divorce laws, switching from mutual consent to a …

information on the prevalence of spousal abuse and threats of violence against women. Constructing comparable groups of …