2001 to 2011. We focus on couples with a mature age husband, and estimate the interdependence of the participation decision … of the couple. We find that the decision of a wife to work or not influences positively, and in a causal fashion, the … decision of her husband to work or not. In our paper we use counterfactual analysis to estimate the impact of the increasing …

, and the labor market behavior of men in the later part of their working lives. Unlike previous work which has typically …

2001 to 2011. We focus on couples with a mature age husband, and estimate the interdependence of the participation decision … of the couple. We find that the decision of a wife to work or not influences positively, and in a causal fashion, the … decision of her husband to work or not. In our paper we use counterfactual analysis to estimate the impact of the increasing …

, and the labor market behavior of men in the later part of their working lives. Unlike previous work which has typically …

the role of opportunities separately from that of preferences. We find that both women and men equally value physical …