of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different … data suggest that the introduction of joint custody led to a long-run increase in marriage rates. There is no convincing … dampened the persistent downturn in marriage. Our empirical evidence is fully consistent with the supposition that these …

additional marriages are the result of an increased incentive of men to marry. -- Joint custody ; marriage ; divorce ; family law … of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different … data suggest that the introduction of joint custody led to a long-run increase in marriage rates. There is no convincing …

additional marriages are the result of an increased incentive of men to marry. -- joint custody ; marriage ; divorce ; family law … of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different … data suggest that the introduction of joint custody led to a long-run increase in marriage rates. There is no convincing …

gender inequality. Because parenthood is often tied to marriage, we also investigate the existence of marriage penalties in … different regions of the world. The fraction of gender inequality explained by child penalties varies systematically with … minuscule fraction of gender inequality. But as economies develop -- incomes rise and the labor market transitions from …

children. Cohabitation also reduces women's propensity to work evenings and weekends, and to hold a second job. The effects are … temporary, and disappear if couples dissolve. I investigate household specialization and gender norms as potential mechanisms … gender norms predicts the magnitude of the penalty. My analysis relies on a unique identification of cohabiting but otherwise …

rights after separation. We use this improvement in women's bargaining power in marriage for a regression discontinuity …

We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using … marriage market, and affected marital outcomes of individuals whose qualification attainment were unaffected. We also decompose … the difference in marriage probabilities between unqualified individuals and those with basic qualifications into causal …

whether, and to what extent, does the incidence of early marriage shape the married women's perspectives on gender preference … have sharpened over time. The findings of this study underscore the role played by early marriage in altering the gender … treatment effects) and a large set of model specifications, and find significant evidence supporting the role of early marriage …