TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Moroni, Gloria
AU  - Nicoletti, Cheti
AU  - Salvanes, Kjell G.
AU  - Tominey, Emma
        TI  - Gender Equality Through Marriage
        PY  - 2025/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 18288
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp18288
        AB  - We revisit the economic effects of marriage, analysing its heterogeneous impact on the intra-household labour division following childbirth. Can marriage promote coordination of work and child activities between parents and a gender egalitarian division of labour? Using a marginal treatment effect framework, we find the average effect of marriage is to increase parental specialization and worsen the mother’s child penalty. However, we find differences across couples with varying resistance to marriage. While traditional couples (low-resistance) exhibit increased specialization; in modern couples (high-resistance) fathers have an earnings penalty and take more paternity leave, suggesting more coordination and gender equality.
        KW  - cooperation
KW  - specialization
KW  - marriage
KW  - cohabitation
KW  - child human capital
        ER  -