marriage bonus, which is economically significant in eight European countries, decreases the work incentives for women and …, pointing to the marriage-biased and gender-biased taxbenefit structures in the analysed countries. Our results suggest that … marriage bonuses contribute to a lock-in effect, where second earners, typically women, are incentivised to work less, with …

An empirical approach to optimal income taxation design is developed within an equilibrium collective marriage market … model with imperfectly transferable utility. Taxes distort labour supply and time allocation decisions, as well as marriage …

find a small positive effect on the probability of divorce, but no effect of the husband's job displacement on fertility … children or wives without children remain unresponsive. We thus conclude that Austria's strong gender identity norms are an …

remain inelastic in response to the wife's caregiving behavior. Working married women do adjust their hours of work in …