In this paper, we present evidence on changes in assortative mating and its implications for household inequality in the UK.

The 1996 PRWORA reform introduced time limits on the receipt of welfare in the United States.

We estimate a dynamic model of employment, human capital accumulation—including education, and savings for women in the United Kingdom, exploiting tax and benefit reforms, and use it to analyze the effects of welfare policy.

Since the 1970s, many countries have established free or highly subsidized education for all preschool children in the hope of improving children’s learning and socio-economic life chances and encouraging mothers to join the labor force. Evaluations reveal that these policies can increase maternal employment in the short term and may continue to do so even after the child is no longer in preschool by enabling mothers to gain more job skills and increase their attachment to the labor force. However, their effectiveness depends on the policy design, the country context, and the characteristics of mothers of preschoolers.

In this paper, we develop an equilibrium lifecycle model of education, marriage and labor supply and consumption in a transferable utility context.

We develop an equilibrium lifecycle model of education, marriage and labor supply and consumption in a transferable utility context.

We estimate a dynamic model of employment, human capital accumulation - including education, and savings for women in the UK, exploiting tax and benefit reforms, and use it to analyze the effects of welfare policy.