estimate a life-cycle model of marriage, labor supply and divorce under limited commitment to better understand the mechanisms … (partly due to "banking" benefi ts for future use), a rise in employment, and a decline in divorce rates. We then specify and …

. Motivated by these observations, we develop a life-cycle model with heterogeneous agents, marriage and divorce and use it to … systems, and as we replace the U.S. divorce and marriage rates with their European equivalents. We find that the divorce and … sample. -- Aggregate Labor Supply ; Taxation ; Marriage ; Divorce ; Heterogeneous Households …

, where the bride's side has to pay substantial dowries to the groom's side at marriage, but a positive impact in the Republic … of Korea, where, as in the People's Republic of China, the groom's side has to bear a disproportionate share of marriage …

supply, marriage and fertility are all endogenous. Assuming preferences that are common across ethnic groups and fixed over … exogenous factors: family background, labor market and marriage market constraints. Changes in parental background are a key … are much more likely to graduate themselves. The marriage market also contributes: Women's chance of getting marriage …

of marriage-related tax-benefit instruments on the labour supply of married couples. For each married partner, we … estimate their individual marginal effective tax rate and net replacement rate before and after marriage. We show that the … marriage bonus, which is economically significant in eight European countries, decreases the work incentives for women and …