Previous literature has established that unilateral divorce laws may reduce female household work. As shown by … Stevenson (2007), unilateral divorce laws may affect overall marital investment. In addition, if unilateral divorce has … differential costs by gender, then unilateral divorce may impact household work by gender through bargaining channels. However …

By allowing people to obtain divorce without the consent of their spouse, Unilateral Divorce Laws (UDLs) increase the … risk of divorce. Using the staggered introduction of UDLs across European countries, we show that households exposed to … financial literacy, contributing to uncover the mechanisms through which the risk of divorce may affect savings. Our results are …

two-hour increase in housework time for each partner upon marriage, with women specializing in routine, and men … housework time between single and married individuals is causal and how much is due to selection. Using longitudinal data from … Australia, UK and US, we find that selection into marriage by individuals with a higher taste for home-produced goods can …

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

two-hour increase in housework time for each partner upon marriage, with women specializing in routine, and men … housework time between single and married individuals is causal and how much is due to selection. Using longitudinal data from … Australia, UK and US, we find that selection into marriage by individuals with a higher taste for home-produced goods can …

We compare the allocation of time of native men and women married to immigrants against their counterparts in all … extra hour per day. Immigrant men do not pay such a price. Some work 34 min less at household chores than native men in all …-native marriages, while the native women who marry immigrant men seem to pay a price related to their situation that would be in an all …

This paper examines whether and how the marital satisfaction of Japanese couples is related to the housework the spouse … greater share of the housework on weekdays. In dual-earner couples, both husbands and wives experience higher spousal … satisfaction when the other spouse performs more housework on weekdays. Japanese dual-earner couples are unable to spend more time …

Using the American Time Use Survey for the years 2003-18 we compare the allocation of time of native men and women … per day. Immigrant men don't pay such price. Some work 34 minutes less at household chores than native men in all …-native marriages, while the native women who marry immigrant men seem to pay a price relatively to what their situation would be in an …

routine and men in non-routine housework tasks …This paper provides insights into the gains of forming a couple by estimating how much of the difference in housework … about half of the observed differences in housework documented in the cross-sectional data. Further ancillary evidence …

of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different …Since the 1970s almost all states have introduced a form of joint custody after divorce. We analyze the causal effect … data suggest that the introduction of joint custody led to a long-run increase in marriage rates. There is no convincing …