higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …

gender inequality. Because parenthood is often tied to marriage, we also investigate the existence of marriage penalties in … female employment. In general, women experience both marriage and child penalties, but their relative importance depends on … economic development. The development process is associated with a substitution from marriage penalties to child penalties …

We develop, apply, and test a new measure of the marriage tax - the reduction in future spending from getting married … clone marriage - marrying oneself - to ensure the living-standard loss from marrying is unaffected by spousal choice. Our … calculated high and highly variable marriage taxes materially reduce the probability of marriage particularly for low …

responses among higher-income individuals. Resources generate persistent increases in marriage for single men and women but do … marriage by socioeconomic status and inform theories of household formation and the family …

when factors that affect tax liability are associated with race. We provide new evidence on racial differences in marriage … of income. We show that marriage rates are much higher among white adults than Black adults, which implies that two …