It is well known that female age at first marriage positively correlates with male income inequality. The common … challenges that interpretation with a novel econometric method. I utilize the fact that the female age at first marriage was …

-teenage women. -- Abortion ; marriage asymmetric information …Previous studies have suggested that more liberal abortion laws should lead to a decrease in marriage rates among young … women as 'shotgun weddings' are no longer necessary. Empirical evidence from the United States lends support to that …

It is well known that female age at first marriage positively correlates with male income inequality. The common … challenges that interpretation with a novel econometric method. I utilize the fact that the female age at first marriage was …

exit employment - is still important among a subset of couples, but that the overall value of marriage as a risk …

women in Australia, with the emphasis on the former. We focus on the partners’ involuntary job loss experiences, and analyse …This paper investigates both the added worker effect (the labour supply responses of women to their partners' job … women's labour market activities in the periods before and after their partners’ job loss. By estimating fixed effects …