. These predictions are tested using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Marriage and divorce … marriage is used as a proxy for divorce risk. … to the labour market when they are confronted with a high likelihood of divorce and vice versa. Similarly, work hours …

Security Database. We show that in our sample of relatively young couples the shock hits households at crucial stages of family … find a small positive effect on the probability of divorce, but no effect of the husband's job displacement on fertility …

market wages earned by high-BMI women, but rather lower spousal transfers to married women or lower expected intra-marriage …Higher body-weight (BMI) can affect labor supply via its effects on outcomes in both labor markets and marriage markets … expect that higher BMI will increase willingness to supply labor in labor markets, especially for women. We use US panel data …

An emerging literature highlights the importance of empowering women. Female decision-making power is typically …

divorce legislation and prioritizing the safety of IPV survivors in family policy interventions. …This paper examines the impact of the 2014 Italian divorce law on help-seeking behavior of domestic violence victims … and femicides. I find that contrary to expectations, the reform, which aimed to make divorce cheaper while requiring …