Social Effects, Household Time Allocation, and the Decline in Union Formation: Working Paper 2005-07

Almudena Sevilla ()

No 16517, Working Papers from Congressional Budget Office

Abstract: Economic theories of the household and the marriage market provide potential explanations for differences in household formation rates over time based in part on the evolution of female wages. However, cross-country differences in female market human capital are unlikely to account for the current differences in union formation rates across developed countries. I develop a partial equilibrium model that formally incorporates social effects on a woman's decision to enter a household. Social effects are modeled as gender roles that constrain potential

Date: 2005-05-03
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