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Women's Labor Supply and Marital Choice

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  • Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana Amyra
  • Neuman, Shoshana

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This paper hypothesizes that value of time, and consequently labor force participation, can vary with circumstances specific to a marriage or a marriage market. Wives' traits valued in the marriage market are expected to be associated with lower labor-force participation, whereas husbands' traits valued in the marriage market are expected to be associated with lower participation rates on the part of wives. Evidence for these hypotheses is found on the basis of regressions of labor-force participation for a sample of Israeli married women. Inclusion of traits valued in the marriage market and marital sorting patterns increases the explanatory power of the regressions. Copyright 1988 by University of Chicago Press.

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Volume (Year): 96 (1988)
Issue (Month): 6 (December)
Pages: 1294-1302
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  2. Robert Cherry, 1998. "Rational Choice and the Price of Marriage," Feminist Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 4(1), pages 27-49.
  3. Berg, Nathan, 2006. "Behavioral Labor Economics," MPRA Paper 26366, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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  9. Widmalm, Frida, 1998. "Marriage, Housework and Fairness," Working Paper Series 1998:22, Uppsala University, Department of Economics.
  10. Jennifer Olmsted, 2002. "Assessing the Impact of Religion on Gender Status," Feminist Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 8(3), pages 99-111.
  11. P. Chiappori, 2011. "Collective labor supply with many consumption goods," Review of Economics of the Household, Springer, vol. 9(2), pages 207-220, June.
  12. Jens Bonke & Martin Browning, 2009. "The distribution of financial well-being and income within the household," Review of Economics of the Household, Springer, vol. 7(1), pages 31-42, March.

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