Is BMI related to hours of work through marriage market mechanisms? We empirically explore this issue using data from …, suggesting that single women may expect future in-marriage transfers that vary by body weight. We show that the positive … association between BMI and hours of work of White single women increases with self-assessed probability of future marriage and …

behaviors, in domains as varied as HIV/AIDS, drugs, alcohol, smoking, obesity, or early marriage prevention. This paper presents …Behaviors that are putting people's health and well-being at risk are widespread in the developing world and some of …

This paper examines the effect of economic incentives generated by U.S. divorce and custody law on a range of child … health and human capital measures. State laws vary widely in the treatment of child support under joint custody. While some … reduced child support. These incentives have negative effects on children's human capital development and health, with …

This paper investigates whether the health of children affects the likelihood that their parents divorce. Using data … from the 1988 National Health Interview Survey, the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health, and the 1970 British … Birth Cohort Study, I find that low birth weight children are at a higher risk of experiencing parental divorce than …

Employers' standard practice of including legal spouses in health insurance is likely to place people in unmarried … Population Survey confirm that people with unmarried partners are two to three times more likely to lack health insurance than …