cohabiting will specialize less than those marrying. Panel data on time use - particularly housework time - as well as on the … Labour Dynamics in Australia survey are used to test this prediction. Panel analysis of reported time use data for men … marry without first cohabiting increase their reported housework time more than those who enter cohabitations (by 3.7 hours …

previous literature on this topic claims that marriage is a waiting game in which women are choosier than men, and old and rich … show that their shorter biological clocks make women uniformly less choosy than men of the same age. This turns marriage … into a rushing game in which women are willing to marry older men because delaying marriage is too costly for women. Our …

relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior … and its heterogeneous effects on the labor market opportunities of men and women affected demographic behavior. We focus … participation declined, reducing the relative economic stature of men. Regions affected by intense robot penetration experienced …

We present an equilibrium model with inter-linked frictional labour and marriage markets. Women's flow value of being … single is treated as given, and it captures returns from employment. Single unemployed men conduct a so-called constrained … sequential job search, and can choose to improve their labour market returns as well as their marriage prospects by undertaking a …

We present an equilibrium model with inter-linked frictional labour and marriage markets. Women's flow value of being … single is treated as given, and it captures returns from employment. Single unemployed men conduct a so-called constrained … sequential job search, and can choose to improve their labour market returns as well as their marriage prospects by under …

previous literature on this topic claims that marriage is a waiting game in which women are choosier than men, and old and rich … show that their shorter biological clocks make women uniformly less choosy than men of the same age. This turns marriage … into a rushing game in which women are willing to marry older men because delaying marriage is too costly for women. Our …

increase and fall after divorce. Divorce, if it occurs, will be instigated by the parent who cares most about the child, the … parent that cares least about the child will never opt for divorce. This can explain the apparent contradiction that mothers … are more likely than fathers to initiate divorce beyond infant age even though the traditional household literature …

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 …

Retirement represents a dramatic change in individual life that may also affect marriage stability, a fact which has … been mostly ignored to date. Using observations on over 200,000 French men and over 166,000 French women aged 50 to 70 … France, we find a significant and large increase in divorce rates upon retirement, which concerns especially individuals of …