-cycle of the 1940 cohort. Conditioning solely on gender, our ex ante welfare analysis finds that women would fare better under … unilateral system as are the top two quintiles of women; the rest prefer mutual consent. We also find that although the change in … divorce regime had only a small effect on the LFP of married women in the 1940 cohort, these effects would be considerably …

this observation imply that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? We develop a series of noncooperative … assess the policy implications of these models. We find that targeting transfers to women can have unintended consequences … and may fail to make children better off. Moreover, different forms of empowering women may lead to opposite results. More …

determined by his/her market income. Men are reluctant to grant women easy access to the labor market as, despite the obvious … on women toward less discrimination, while the exact opposite holds for men with low-income spouses. Our findings suggest …

The nineteenth century witnessed dramatic improvements in the legal rights of married women. Given that these changes … took place long before women gained the right to vote, they amounted to a voluntary renouncement of power by men. In this … paper, we investigate men's incentives for sharing power with women. In our model, women's legal rights set the marital …