Kondo, Ayako - In: Journal of Population Economics 25 (2012) 1, pp. 151-174
Slack labor market conditions for women relative to men increase the marriage rate in the USA. This paper examines the … long-term consequences of such marriages. Despite the significant effect on marriage timing, labor market conditions … the time of marriage are uncorrelated with the probability of divorce, spouses’ characteristics, or the number of children …