This study contributes to the literature on how parenthood affects the withincouple gender earnings gap. It examines … how this 'child penalty' on women's earnings varies with the education level of both partners and the woman's relative …

In 1933, the German government introduced the marriage loan for newlyweds, a policy aimed at increasing marriages and …

show substantial bonuses for married couples and four exhibit marriage penalties. On a micro level, we find that these … marriage bonuses/penalties differ substantially across household types and income. From a policy point of view, our results … suggest that the abolishment of marriage-related tax-benefit components in countries with marriage bonuses would leave some …

of marriage-related tax-benefit instruments on the labour supply of married couples. For each married partner, we … estimate their individual marginal effective tax rate and net replacement rate before and after marriage. We show that the … marriage bonus, which is economically significant in eight European countries, decreases the work incentives for women and …

-native marriage. An explanation based on the operation of competitive marriage markets works for immigrant women, but not for …

's marriage market? We answer these questions using a structural model of consumer-producer households that is applied to rich … data from Malawi. Using revealed preference conditions for a stable marriage market, we define the economic attractiveness … the value of consumption and leisure in the current marriage. We estimate this marital instability measure for every …