An empirical approach to optimal income taxation design is developed within an equilibrium collective marriage market model with imperfectly transferable utility. Taxes distort labour supply and time allocation decisions, as well as marriage market outcomes, and the within household decision process. Using data from the American Community Survey and American Time Use Survey, we structurally est...

Increases in interracial marriage have been interpreted as reflecting reduced social distance among racial and ethnic groups, but little is known about the stability of interracial marriages. Using six panels of Survey of Income and Program Participation (N 1⁄4 23,139 married couples), we found that interracial marriages are less stable than endogamous marriages, but these findings did not hold...

by reducing the growth rate and aging population countries, communities population has become a controversial issue. this subject has led many thinkers to understand the factors influencing fertility decline. understanding the quality of fertility reduction and family change requires to understand the status of women which is a result of global changes. because women as one of the pillars of th...

In this article, we draw from Huston's (2000) 3-level model of marriage to provide an informed and integrative template for organizing current knowledge and guiding future inquiry into the study of marital well-being among a rapidly growing segment of the United States' population: low-income, Mexican-origin couples in the early years of parenthood. More specifically, we advocate for a dyadic a...

Cohabitation is an alternative to marriage and to living independently for an increasing number of Americans. Still, research that explores links between living arrangements and economic behavior is limited by a lack of data that explicitly identify cohabiting couples. To aid researchers in using the Survey of Income and Program Participation's (SIPP) rich data to explore cohabitation issues, w...

We document contemporaneous differences in the aggregate labor supply of married couples across 18 OECD countries. Relative to their US counterparts, European married men work on average 9 to 17 percent, and married women in Western and Southern Europe 26 and 31 percent fewer hours. Married women in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe however work almost as many hours as US married women. We find th...

It is well established that women have lower income and wealth levels than men. These inequalities are most pronounced within heterosexual couples grow once partners get married children. Nevertheless, equality in controlling money highly valued might ameliorate women’s disadvantages ownership. Previous research has focused on explaining gender at the household level; less known about possible ...