An empirical approach to optimal income taxation design is developed within an equilibrium collective marriage market … model with imperfectly transferable utility. Taxes distort labour supply and time allocation decisions, as well as marriage …

Does availability of common law marriage (CLM henceforth) in the U.S help explain variation in the labor force … legal protection to household producers at the margin between single status and marriage, we expect it to discourage labor …

We develop an equilibrium lifecycle model of education, marriage and labor supply and consumption in a transferable … utility context. Individuals start by choosing their investments in education anticipating returns in the marriage market and … the labor market. They then match based on the economic value of marriage and on preferences. Equilibrium in the marriage …

We develop an equilibrium lifecycle model of education, marriage and labor supply and consumption in a transferable … utility context. Individuals start by choosing their investments in education anticipating returns in the marriage market and … the labor market. They then match based on the economic value of marriage and on preferences. Equilibrium in the marriage …

property at divorce, because it is not acquired with income earned during marriage. Hence it plays the role of a "distribution …

formulate and structurally estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of endogenous marriage and labor supply decisions in a collective … framework. We establish that the education gap at the time of marriage, produces dynamic effects due to human capital …

impact of marriage. I find clear evidence that the elasticity of labor supply with respect to wages and taxes is affected by … marriage decisions. The empirical results show that males who are continuously married to the same wife have a lower average …