Unilateral Divorce, the Decreasing Gender Gap, and Married Women's Labor Force Participation
研究美国1940和1960年代出生队列中，离婚制度从双方同意改为单方离婚以及性别工资差距缩小，如何共同解释已婚女性劳动参与率超50%的增长。
Married women's labor force participation (LFP) increased dramatically in the United States between the 1940 and 1960 cohort. The two cohorts lived under different divorce regimes (unilateral divorce rather than mutual consent). The 1960 cohort also had a lower gender wage gap. We use a quantitative dynamic life-cycle model of endogenous marital status, calibrated to key statistics for the 1940 cohort, to study the effects of these two changes. We find that both drivers combined are able to account for over 50 percent of the increase in married women's LFP and also generate large movements in marriage and divorce rates.