An extensive and long-standing literature examines the amount of time people spend on their jobs and families. A newer literature, including this review, takes that older literature as background and focuses on the social processes that shape our schedules: how we manage our time, accepting,...

Although research shows that marriage protects health, some argue that it protects men more than women. The paper explores this argument by examining the special case of the separated and divorced. If men benefit from marriage, then they should have greater health risk when marriage ends....