Labour Economics

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, …

We use a novel instrument based on social norms towards marriage to present a new finding: being married has a positive causal effect …

In the US labor market, married men and women earn higher wages than their single counterparts. At the same time, individuals with …

In the US economy, Black men, on average, receive lower wages than White men, and the difference increases over the working life. The …

We use a simple theoretical framework, a building block of many macroeconomic models, to study the prominently debated relationship …

We exploit the quasi-random allocation of asylum seekers across Swiss cantons and the high frequency of national referenda to identify …

We study unemployment insurance in a framework where the main source of heterogeneity among agents is the type of household they live …

In this paper we document that married individuals face a lower unemployment rate than their single counterparts. We refer to this …

We leverage the quasi-random assignment of Swedish men to army units and its subsequent effect on peer exposure to study the causal …