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The Role of Paid Family Leave in Labor Supply Responses to a Spouse's Disability or Health Shock

Anand, Priyanka; Dague, Laura; Wagner, Kathryn - 2023

The onset of a disability or major health shock can affect the labor supply of not only those experiencing the event but also their family members. Potential caregivers face a tradeoff between time spent earning income for the family and providing care for their spouse, which could be affected...

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Learning in the Household

Conlon, John; Mani, Malavika; Rao, Gautam; Ridley, Matthew - 2023

We study social learning between spouses using an experiment in Chennai, India. We vary whether individuals discover information themselves or must instead learn what their spouse discovered via a discussion. Women treat their 'own' and their husband's information the same. In sharp contrast,...

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Do State Laws Affect the Age of Marriage? a Cautionary Tale About Avoidance Behavior

Blank, Rebecca M. - 2008

behavioral responses to laws governing the age of marriage using both administrative records from the Vital Statistics and … restrictive laws. Second, many young people appear to have evaded minimum age of marriage laws by misrepresenting age on their … marriage certificate. This avoidance was especially pronounced in earlier years, when few states required documented proof of …

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Marriage and Divorce : Changes and Their Driving Forces

Stevenson, Betsey - 2007

We document key facts about marriage and divorce, comparing trends through the past 150 years and outcomes across … quarter century. Marriage rates have also been falling, but more strikingly, the importance of marriage at different points in … the life cycle has changed, reflecting rising age at first marriage, rising divorce followed by high remarriage rates, and …

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The American Family and Family Economics

Lundberg, Shelly - 2007

changed in recent decades: the separation of sex, marriage, and childbearing; fewer children and smaller households … members (e.g., children) or to promote marriage and fertility …

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Divorce, Fertility and the Shot Gun Marriage

Alesina, Alberto - 2006

Total fertility declined in states that introduced unilateral divorce, which makes dissolution of marriage easier. Also … it) based upon the effect of divorce laws on the probability of entering and exiting marriage. Women planning to have … children marry more easily with an easier quot;exit optionquot; from marriage. Thus, more children are born in the first years …

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Understanding Joint Retirement

Michaud, Pierre-Carl - 2018

Evidence from different sources shows that spouses' retirement decisions are correlated. Retirement policies affecting individuals in couples are therefore also likely to affect behavior of their spouses. It is therefore important to account for joint features in modeling retirement. This paper...

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The Life Expectancy of Older Couples and Surviving Spouses

Compton, Janice - 2018

Comparisons of individual life expectancies over time and across demographic groups provide information for individuals making retirement decisions and for policy makers. For couples, analogous measures are the expected years both spouses will be alive (joint life expectancy) and the expected...

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Long-Term Changes in Married Couples' Labor Supply and Taxes : Evidence from the Us and Europe Since the 1980s

Bick, Alexander - 2018

We document the time-series of employment rates and hours worked per employed by married couples in the US and seven European countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the UK) from the early 1980s through 2016. Relying on a model of joint household labor supply...

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Is There a Male Breadwinner Norm? The Hazards of Inferring Preferences from Marriage Market Outcomes

Binder, Ariel - 2018

Building on standard marital matching models, we show that a variety of underlying social preferences about a given trait all generate positive assortative matching on that trait, and hence the same distribution of spousal trait differences in equilibrium. Applying this result to U.S. Census and...

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