We study unemployment insurance in a framework where the main source of heterogeneity among agents is the type of … household they live in: some agents live alone while others live with their spouses as a family. Our exercise is motivated by … aggregate wealth moments. Our central finding is that changes to the current unemployment insurance program are valued …

response to a sudden financial shock in family income, that is, unemployment of their partner. While previous empirical studies … focus on married women's response to those shocks, I explicitly analyze the spillover effects of unemployment on both women … and men and I also differentiate according to their partnership status (marriage vs. cohabitation). My aim is to evaluate …

This study examines the impact of involuntary job loss on the mental health of family members. Estimates from fixed …

This field experiment explores whether single and married female job candidates' un/employment histories differentially …' discrimination against, and/or preference for, candidates who are un/employed vary with the duration of unemployment spells. Resumes …. Candidates' experiences of unemployment and declaration of marital status are carefully controlled. Over 7000 applications are …

-cyclical behaviour of marriage decisions, which holds after controlling for country-level specific characteristics and family law, and …This paper studies the effect of the business cycle on the marriage rate, using a panel data of 30 European countries … covering 1991 to 2013. We find a negative effect of the business cycle on the marriage rate, pointing to the pro …

This study is the first to provide a causal estimate of the subjective well-being effects of spousal unemployment at … job termination induced by workplace closure, we show that spousal unemployment reduces the life satisfaction of … driven by an income effect, but likely reflect the psychological costs of unemployment. Our findings are robust to a battery …