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 …

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