Family Economics

Does the Added Worker Effect Matter?
In the US, the likelihood of a married woman entering the labor force in a given month increases by 60% if her husband loses his job, …
Nezih Guner, Yuliya Kulikova, Arnau Valladares-Esteban
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On the Marriage Wage Premium
We use a novel instrument based on social norms towards marriage to present a new finding: being married has a positive causal effect …
Brendon McConnell, Arnau Valladares-Esteban
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Do Employers Positively Discriminate Married Workers?
In the US labor market, married men and women earn higher wages than their single counterparts. At the same time, individuals with …
Brendon McConnell, Arnau Valldares-Esteban
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On Households and Unemployment Insurance
We study unemployment insurance in a framework where the main source of heterogeneity among agents is the type of household they live …
Sekyu Choi, Arnau Valladares-Esteban
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The Marriage Unemployment Gap
In this paper we document that married individuals face a lower unemployment rate than their single counterparts. We refer to this …
Sekyu Choi, Arnau Valladares-Esteban
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Leveraging the Quasi-Random Exposure of Swedish Men to Army Peers to Identify the Causal Effect of Marriage on Labour Market Outcomes
We leverage the quasi-random assignment of Swedish men to army units and its subsequent effect on peer exposure to study the causal …
Brendon McConnell, Arnau Valladares-Esteban, Yaroslav Yakymovych
The Role of Family Structure in the Evolution of Household Wealth in the US since the 1960s
In the US, married households have more net worth per working-age adult than single households. In the 1960s, the gap was associated …
Alina Bartscher, Winfried Koeniger, Benjamin Larin, Arnau Valladares-Esteban