TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fernández,Raquel
AU  - Wong,Joyce C.
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Divorce Risk, Wages, and Working Wives: A Quantitative Life-Cycle Analysis of Female Labor Force Participation 
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - January 2014; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - This paper develops a quantitative life-cycle model to study the increase in married women's labor force participation (LFP). We calibrate the model to match key life-cycle statistics for the 1935 cohort and use it to assess the changed environment faced by the 1955 cohort. We find that a higher divorce probability and changes in wage structure are each able to explain a large proportion of the LFP increase. Higher divorce risk increases LFP not because the latter contributes to higher marital assets or greater labor market experience, however. Instead, it is the result of conflicting spousal preferences towards the adjustment of marital consumption in the face of increased divorce risk
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w19869
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w19869
ER  -