We study the effectiveness of intra-household insurance among married couples when the husband loses his job due to a … gains recover only a tiny fraction of the household income loss and, in the short-term, public transfers and taxes are a … more important form of insurance. We show that the presence of children in the household is a crucial determinant of the …

response to a sudden financial shock in family income, that is, unemployment of their partner. While previous empirical studies … focus on married women's response to those shocks, I explicitly analyze the spillover effects of unemployment on both women … and men and I also differentiate according to their partnership status (marriage vs. cohabitation). My aim is to evaluate …

We document the effect of unemployment insurance generosity on divorce and fertility using an identification strategy …

Security Database. We show that in our sample of relatively young couples the shock hits households at crucial stages of family … small, about -0:04. While the wives' earnings gains recover only a tiny fraction of the household income loss, public …. The presence and ages of children in the household are crucial determinants of the wife's labor supply response. The most …

(2002) to an intertemporal setting. We first develop a theoretical model to analyze the intra-household distribution of … wealth in a multi-period framework, with a focus on labor supply and marriage markets. The model allows us to derive a … setting. We show that wages are positively related to household labor supply, although cross and lagged effects show negative …