Changes in Marriage and Divorce as Drivers of Employment and Retirement of Older Women

Claudia Olivetti, Dana E. Rotz

NBER Working Paper No. 22738
Issued in October 2016

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The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the opinions of their respective institutions, nor of the National Bureau of Economic Research. This paper was prepared for the Women Working Longer Conference hosted by the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA on May 21-22, 2016. We thank Jesse Bruhn, Marco Ghiani, Elias Sanchez-Eppler, and James Ledoux who provided expert research assistance. We also thank Claudia Goldin, Larry Katz, Yue Li, Alessandra Voena and participants in the “Women Working Longer” conference for valuable comments and suggestions. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Working Longer program under grant no. 2013-6-16, “Women Working Longer.”

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