We evaluate the effects of the transition from cohabitation to marriage on household domestic and market work hours … the presence of endogenous regressors. Our results indicate that marriage increases women's specialization in home …-based activities and that marriage decreases women's leisure. These effects are robust across specifications …

Higher body-weight (BMI) can affect labor supply via its effects on outcomes in both labor markets and marriage markets … market wages earned by high-BMI women, but rather lower spousal transfers to married women or lower expected intra-marriage …

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 …

equilibrium limited-commitment collective framework that allows for marriage both within and across birth cohorts. Using Panel … within- and across-cohort marital matching. Our model replicates the bivariate marriage distribution by age, and explains … some of the most salient life-cycle patterns of marriage, divorce, remarriage, and time allocation behavior. We use our …

We examine changes in marriage and earnings patterns across four cohorts born between 1936 and 1975, using data from a … men and women, marriage has become increasingly positively associated with education and earnings potential. We compare … ordinary least squares (OLS) and fixed effect (FE) estimates of the earnings differential associated with marriage. We find …

Marriage has declined since 1960, with the drop being bigger for non-college educated individuals versus college …. Income inequality among households has also widened. A unified model of marriage, divorce, educational attainment and married …

-native marriage. An explanation based on the operation of competitive marriage markets works for immigrant women, but not for …

We evaluate the effects of the transition from cohabitation to marriage on household domestic and market work hours … the presence of endogenous regressors. Our results indicate that marriage increases women's specialization in home …-based activities and that marriage decreases women's leisure. These effects are robust across specifications. …