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Title: How Important Is Anticipation of Divorce in Married Women's Labor Supply Decisions? An Intercohort Comparison Using NLS Data
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1. Sen, Bisakha
How Important Is Anticipation of Divorce in Married Women's Labor Supply Decisions? An Intercohort Comparison Using NLS Data
Economics Letters 67,2 (May 2000): 209-216.
Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165176599002591
Cohort(s): NLSY79, Young Women
Publisher: Elsevier
Keyword(s): Divorce; Labor Supply; Marital Instability; Marital Status; Marriage; Wives, Work; Women

I compare two birth-cohorts of married women and find that divorce-risk plays a significantly smaller role in the recent cohort's labor supply decision. This suggests that any decline in America's divorce rates will not substantially reduce married women's labor supply. Copyright: 2000 Elsevier Science S.A.
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Sen, Bisakha. "How Important Is Anticipation of Divorce in Married Women's Labor Supply Decisions? An Intercohort Comparison Using NLS Data." Economics Letters 67,2 (May 2000): 209-216.